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The War on Passwords Is One Step Closer to Being Over
(www.wired.com)
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this post was submitted on 15 Oct 2024
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Whenever I read stuff like this, my mind goes a bit hazy. Because I'm just finding myself asking 'Why and when did the simple mechanic of passwords get this difficult?'
Maybe if password requirements weren't stingingly stupid, companies cared more about actual security and not an obstacle course they've gotta send people through to do one thing. We wouldn't ever know or need to know systems like this.
Passkeys are much simpler to use than passwords, password managers, 2FA etc. if simplicity is your goal, Passkeys are your personal wet dream.
That one site - what was it, Mozilla's/Gnome's git? - that needed Aegis for login. Which is unlocked by pasword btw.
When and because people started storing all their intimate personal details on the internet and hackers sought to exploit those details.
The obstacle course is the security, unfortunately. That's the problem this aims to solve.
With passkeys you never need to worry about the storage method used by the site. Some sites STILL store passwords in plaintext. When that database gets hacked, it’s game over.
A public passkey, even stored in plaintext, is useless to an attacker.
Maybe that doesn’t matter for you or me, with our 64-character randomly generated passwords unique to each service, but the bigger picture is that most people just use the same password everywhere. This is how identity theft happens.