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ZDNET's key takeaways
Adoption of passkeys is fragmented across sites and devices.
Users still need passwords for recovery and new device setup.
Phishing protection makes passkeys worth adding, despite confusion.
OK. Fine. I've finally decided to embrace passkeys. But why does it feel so icky?
As you probably know, passkeys are the tech industry's answer to The Password Problem. Unlike password data, which can be breached, phished, quished, vished, and smished, passkeys require an encrypted private key that (at least theoretically) only you have.
Also: Passkeys won't be ready for primetime until Google and other companies fix this
They are the pinnacle of modern credential security, and we all should be using them. Or at least, that's the message our favorite sites are nagging us with constantly.
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