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Ethan Hawksley Developer and authorGoogle Tech company promoting passkeysMicrosoft Tech company promoting passwordless authenticationApple Tech company integrating passkey managementFIDO Alliance Standards organization
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YES. This exactly. I work across multiple devices, some of which are nonstandard/uncommon (Linux, Xiaomi China ROM, ...) and I've NEVER had passkeys work properly - yet everything constantly prompts me to add one. Even if they did work, I'd have to carry around hardware keys or register each computer separately. And the lack of backups if a device…
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I don't like passkeys L: https:// hawksley.dev/blog/i-dont-like- passkeys C: https:// news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4 9753211 posted on 2026.09.18 at 08:06:50 (c=0, p=4)
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While the technology itself may be great (I don't really know since I don't use them) it has been co-opted by the tech conglomerates as another form of isolating and walling off users into their ecosystems.And honestly, nowadays, if tech companies are pushing really hard for something then that is an immediate red flag for me and it bears more…
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Passkeys remind me of ipv6 in that they are a "solution" coming from the supply-side, without (apparently) having done any research in what motivates actual users (and what would motivate them to switch).<<ducks>>
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Passkeys have a marketing problem where no one is able to describe simply what it is without having to use technical jargon. There's also the problem where each OS tries too hard in pushing this to the face of end-user
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