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[-] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 33 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

This vulnerability has nothing to do with password strength or security and everything to do with password reset security, i.e. email and improper handling of parameters to that reset API call.

Passkeys are interesting and potentially quite strong but they're going to have to fall back to the same old reset mechanism if you e.g. drop your passkey device (phone) into a lake.

[-] hydration9806@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago

Or just make it clear your account is gone if you lose your passkey, so have a second key for backup or learn a hard lesson.

[-] cley_faye@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah, good luck with that. You can tell someone "if you lose this token, all data are unrecoverable", they'll reply with "ok, got it!" and about two and a half second later call you saying "Hey I lost my token can you recover my data?".

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