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Passkeys might really kill passwords (www.theverge.com)

submitted 8 months ago by Ninjazzon@infosec.pub to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Passkeys: how do they work? No, like, seriously. It’s clear that the industry is increasingly betting on passkeys as a replacement for passwords, a way to use the internet that is both more secure and more user-friendly. But for all that upside, it’s not always clear how we, the normal human users, are supposed to use passkeys. You’re telling me it’s just a thing... that lives on my phone? What if I lose my phone? What if you steal my phone?

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[-] Vordimous@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Fun fact, I frequently use the word blue as my security question answers. Not all of them but enough that even if a person got to "know" me enough to know what city I was born, they wouldn't know which answers are true or which are blue.

[-] sobriquet@aussie.zone 16 points 8 months ago

I use my password manager to generate the answer. My mothers maiden name is CzyHcjMKMfwT4tZ7HXbavQrOPo and my first pet was Avhu6FqPTRsWwafA, but we called him Avhu for short.

[-] capital@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

I used to make them quite long until I was asked to confirm my identity over the phone using one once hahaha.

Now they’re max 10 alphanumeric characters and all lower case but still random.

[-] subtext@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I think it makes it even better when I have to read out my 30 character alphanumeric first girlfriend’s dog’s birth town’s name over the phone… they’re certainly gonna know it’s me calling lol

The absolute best is when you get to choose the security question and you can just put “read the Bitwarden secret.”

[-] sobriquet@aussie.zone 2 points 8 months ago

I like to think that if enough people ended up taking 10 minutes on a support call to validate someone’s identity, when it should take 10 seconds, maybe the companies would learn to stop asking stupid security questions. I like to think that, but in reality nothing will change.

[-] Vordimous@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago

All of that and the IRS will still ask what street your first pets mom died on.

[-] sobriquet@aussie.zone 2 points 8 months ago

Ah, yes, D7k3y2mHy5lZhbyHa St, I remember it well.

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 9 points 8 months ago

Yeah security questions like that are the dumbest goddamn thing. "Create a super secure password that no one can guess, and enter the answers of five trivia questions about yourself that are likely in the public record about you or that you'll happily reveal in small talk with strangers just in case you forget that super secure password."

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