I find this generally unacceptable. The FAA doesn’t need to be providing special services to people who want to alter the rules just because they think they’re more important or special than everyone else.
Guess we better pray they don’t alter the deal further. It doesn’t work like this for any other registered government service, from radio licenses to securities brokers; why should it for planes? …and wouldn’t this just be subject to FOIA requests anyway, so that all it does is provide a delay? But again, why should they get special treatment?
This doesn’t differentiate between paid and non-paid PM users, or those just hosting their domain email with PM, either, but if a company wants to cut off its face to spite some users for the communications provider they user, then yeah.
“Passkeys, developed by the FIDO Alliance, with support from major tech companies like Apple, Google, and Microsoft, offer a more secure and user-friendly alternative to traditional passwords“
is a lying, surreptitious statement.
Yes, “passkeys” are public-private key pairs, but no different in theory from, say, ssh public/private keys. Whoever is pushing passkeys today though, at this point, is just trying to improve your security (good) while simultaneously locking you into their stuff, Forever (Very Bad).
Passkeys are not “user-friendly” because they take control away from users, promote lock-in that prevents users from switching platforms, and remain something that could be improved… but the powers that be have no intention of doing so because their only goal is to fuck you.
Without an open storage protocol and transfer method, not involving any third party “letting” you do so or collaborating to force you to store cryptographic material in their place or format, this is just another attempt to control you and screw you over.
Agreed, the companies got greedy and only opened up support outside their platforms after community complained it was DOA. They fully intended to lock everyone in from the get go. But at least now bitwarden can handle the passkeys so no lock in. https://bitwarden.com/passwordless-passkeys/
The forced telemetry on the unpaid version is a good enough reason to opt out of ever considering their product, if there’s an option to do so.
If they don’t respect me before I pay them, why would I believe they’ll respect me more after I pay them? (Yes, I know that telemetry “isn’t required” on a paid product-which, conveniently, they won’t even provide an idea of a price for but instead just ask you to “contact them”)
Charge them, and make sure they understand why - they’re benefiting, and have been benefiting, from software developed at no cost to them. If they want anything, it needs to cost them; otherwise, …
Guess we better pray they don’t alter the deal further. It doesn’t work like this for any other registered government service, from radio licenses to securities brokers; why should it for planes? …and wouldn’t this just be subject to FOIA requests anyway, so that all it does is provide a delay? But again, why should they get special treatment?
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