That's why I very specifically said: Passkeys solve problems that corporations have, by moving the problems on to consumers.
Our industry was done writing reliable, quality software years ago, so it shouldn't come as any surprise that we want to keep going in that direction. Passwords have such an obvious, fantastic, beautiful quality in how when all else fails you can verbally say out loud "my password is X C J 5 4..." Its the ultimate form of reliability: non-digital, spoken or written language.
Passkeys throw that away. I don't care about any of the other arguments. Our industry wants to build less reliable software, so we built passkeys. I don't know why we're obsessed with building things that are less reliable instead of more reliable, but we are. Its sad, its insane, and frankly I'm getting so damn tired of trying to push for reliability every day and instead seeing Microsoft just throw weight around, get hacked, throw weight around again, get hacked again, and somehow still reap respect for their position in matters of security.
Our industry was done writing reliable, quality software years ago, so it shouldn't come as any surprise that we want to keep going in that direction. Passwords have such an obvious, fantastic, beautiful quality in how when all else fails you can verbally say out loud "my password is X C J 5 4..." Its the ultimate form of reliability: non-digital, spoken or written language.
Passkeys throw that away. I don't care about any of the other arguments. Our industry wants to build less reliable software, so we built passkeys. I don't know why we're obsessed with building things that are less reliable instead of more reliable, but we are. Its sad, its insane, and frankly I'm getting so damn tired of trying to push for reliability every day and instead seeing Microsoft just throw weight around, get hacked, throw weight around again, get hacked again, and somehow still reap respect for their position in matters of security.