Why “passkey” is being discussed
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And now you have to log into your email with a Passkey that probably you lost at the same time you lost your Passkey to the original site (e.g. lost or stolen device). If you ar…
by raron · Sep 19, 2026
Much like with 2FA apps, most of the sites I've seen - including big names - support only one app and one passkey at a time .
by TeMPOraL · Sep 19, 2026
My actual experience is people with passkey are fine. No more account take over. Mote over they like frictionless login. Yes there are few that used bitwarden and lost everythin…
by faust201 · Sep 19, 2026
I think this is probably one of the reasons people have very different passkey experiences. Hardware passkeys are great and software ones appear to be less great.
by nulltype · Sep 19, 2026
Yes, at this point I have probably saved literal hours in time added up by being able to skip MFA prompts on sites/apps I use regularly via a passkey login flow. It was bec…
by qlte · Sep 19, 2026
You can add multiple passkeys in the vast majority of websites that support them. There's nothing in the spec that prevents or discourages allowing multiple credentials. I do it…
by qlte · Sep 19, 2026
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