On this episode of The Vergecast, we figure out passkeys once and for all.

Passkeys: how do they work? No, like, seriously. It’s clear that the industry is increasingly betting on passkeys as a replacement for passwords, a way to use the internet that is both more secure and more user-friendly. But for all that upside, it’s not always clear how we, the normal human users, are supposed to use passkeys. You’re telling me it’s just a thing… that lives on my phone? What if I lose my phone? What if you steal my phone?

  • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    9 months ago

    These would be extremely easy to detect with regex. Just look for the service name in a password, including common leet speak conversion.

    Password123-Facebook then easily becomes Password123-GitHub or Password123-Walgreens.

    I can assure you, if I was a bad actor that got my hands on a password dump, I’m checking for these kinds of passwords pretty early on.

    Edit: A word.