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   Matt Birchler (matt@isfeeling.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Jun-2024 23:03:30 JST Matt Birchler

   #Passkeys truly are the new lock in for password managers. I'm trying to be a good citizen and use passkeys wherever I can, but now I can't properly try other password managers without needing to create dozens of new keys. I'm trying Proton Pass now, and it's a major pain.

   Extrapolate this out to a world where passkeys are the norm and effectively all of my accounts authenticate this way, and moving your data becomes impossible. :dumpster:

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     Matt Birchler (matt@isfeeling.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Jun-2024 23:03:24 JST Matt Birchler

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     Something something, don't get a product today based on hopes and dreams of future software updates…

     As an aside, Apple is the only place I've been that makes it impossible to use anything besides their password manager for setting up a passkey. It's maddening.

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     Matt Birchler (matt@isfeeling.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Jun-2024 23:03:26 JST Matt Birchler

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     I know the FIDO Alliance and passkey enthusiasts will say that the passkey standard isn't built to lock users in, and migrating them should be possible.

     That's well and good, but we're several years into this and zero of the major players support this. Whether you use Apple, Google, 1Password, or anything else, your passkeys are locked to those accounts today. maybe you can move in a few years, but you can't now. Yay.

     Warner Crocker repeated this.