Because it’s just a glorified password manager. But instead of your master password being kept securely in your head, your master password is now in the hands of Google or Apple or Microsoft.
KeePassXC just today released support for storing passkeys in your own keepass database file. And they’re not just “glorified passwords”. They’re private keys that use challenge-response authentication so they’re never actually sent over the network. Harder to compromise.
Using passkeys with some kind of personal database is ultimately an objective improvement over hodge podge username and password mechanisms, so they’re only going to continue being adopted further.
The only case they don’t really work for is when you want to log in to a computer that doesn’t have access to your passkeys.
Cool totally gonna trust some proprietary bazinga program to not leak it like bitlocker or whatever password manager people were constantly shilling last time did.
The same sorts of people who are enthusiastically embracing Google’s “Passkey” scam.
how are passkeys a scam
Because it’s just a glorified password manager. But instead of your master password being kept securely in your head, your master password is now in the hands of Google or Apple or Microsoft.
KeePassXC just today released support for storing passkeys in your own keepass database file. And they’re not just “glorified passwords”. They’re private keys that use challenge-response authentication so they’re never actually sent over the network. Harder to compromise.
Using passkeys with some kind of personal database is ultimately an objective improvement over hodge podge username and password mechanisms, so they’re only going to continue being adopted further.
The only case they don’t really work for is when you want to log in to a computer that doesn’t have access to your passkeys.
Cool totally gonna trust some proprietary bazinga program to not leak it like bitlocker or whatever password manager people were constantly shilling last time did.
KeePass(XC) is open-source.
using your brain is open source.
You don’t actually use your brain lmao. How many online accounts do you have?
Are you so bazinga-brained that you can’t imagine somebody simply remembering what their own passwords are???
You are being reactionary.
How so? /srs