> The tech crowd on a forum like HN seems to be mostly against it because of issues with account recovery and cross-device use that passwords don’t pose.
Because of an embarrassing amount of ignorance. Own an android phone? An iPhone? Congratulations, your passkeys are on your password manager.
You can recover your passwords when you lose your phone right? Exact same mechanism. (Now, if we want to talk about how solid the protection is for apple/google at keeping these private keys safe in their clouds, and how secure something is when one magic password is enough to unlock literally everything, or how confident we can be that the govs won’t be able to get their paws on them, that’s a more nuanced topic).
Also a solved problem with keychain managers. Example:
With iCloud Keychain, you can keep your passwords (and other secure information) updated across your devices and shared with the people that you trust.
Because of an embarrassing amount of ignorance. Own an android phone? An iPhone? Congratulations, your passkeys are on your password manager.
You can recover your passwords when you lose your phone right? Exact same mechanism. (Now, if we want to talk about how solid the protection is for apple/google at keeping these private keys safe in their clouds, and how secure something is when one magic password is enough to unlock literally everything, or how confident we can be that the govs won’t be able to get their paws on them, that’s a more nuanced topic).