Post #2368261
2026-05-08 22:09 UTC
@rmondello@hachyderm.io How do they handle the edges cases when everything isn’t perfect.
Say I’m on vacation, I break my phone and buy a new one. I need to login to get my data so I can get my plane tickets to go home. If my login is a passkey, then what?
I’m at a family member’s home using their copy of TurboTax and need to login to my bank on their computer to download my records, but I have a PassKey, then what?
If the answer is fall back to password auth, then what is the point of the Passkey?
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@nicolas17@social.treehouse.systems 2026-05-10 01:16
@bootlessbuck@mastodon.social @rmondello@hachyderm.io If I don't use passkeys, then if I lose my phone and buy a new one, I still need to login to my password manager to be able to login to the airline website, because I have a long random password for the airline that I can't possibly remember. But if I can use my password manager (be it Bitwarden or iCloud Keychain or whatever) then I have access to my passkeys too.