From the «time to retire from this nonsense» department:
Title: Microsoft makes passkeys the default authentication method for all new accounts
Author: editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales)
Date: Fri, 02 May 2025 12:49:58 +0000
Link: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/microsoft-makes-passkeys-the-default-authentication-method-for-all-new-accounts
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Microsoft says that passkeys reduce password use by 20% and wants to remove password use altogether.

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On 03 May 2025 11:45:26 GMT, Retrograde wrote:

Microsoft says that passkeys reduce password use by 20% and wants to
remove password use altogether.

It would be nice if there were a common, open standard for managing
passkeys ...

Oh wait, there is.

But oh, further wait, Microsoft doesn’t want to support that. It wants
you to use its own proprietary passkey mechanism.

<https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/05/microsoft-pushes-unphishable-logins-forward-with-new-sign-in-options/>

And funny that, but other major corporations are sabotaging the
usefulness of passkeys in the same way, by each insisting you use
their particular implementations of the concept, rather than sharing a
common interoperable one.

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Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid> wrote at 11:45 this Saturday (GMT):

From the «time to retire from this nonsense» department:
Title: Microsoft makes passkeys the default authentication method for all new accounts
Author: editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales)
Date: Fri, 02 May 2025 12:49:58 +0000
Link: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/microsoft-makes-passkeys-the-default-authentication-method-for-all-new-accounts
Podcast Download URL: https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/JheNLB9QZsCV2yfgogzWX8.jpg

Microsoft says that passkeys reduce password use by 20% and wants to remove password use altogether.

On one hand, I do like password-less login systems when it's handled all locally (ie having a ~/.ssh/id_rsa file), but I hate them trying
to force MS accounts and add biometric data to it.
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user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom

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candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
writes:

Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid> wrote at 11:45 this Saturday (GMT):

From the «time to retire from this nonsense» department:
Title: Microsoft makes passkeys the default authentication method for all new accounts
Author: editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales)
Date: Fri, 02 May 2025 12:49:58 +0000
Link:
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/microsoft-makes-passkeys-the-default-authentication-method-for-all-new-accounts
Podcast Download URL: https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/JheNLB9QZsCV2yfgogzWX8.jpg

Microsoft says that passkeys reduce password use by 20% and wants to remove >> password use altogether.

On one hand, I do like password-less login systems when it's handled all locally (ie having a ~/.ssh/id_rsa file), but I hate them trying
to force MS accounts and add biometric data to it.

I created a passkey using Bitwarden. I didn't get forced to use
microsoft anything.

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On Sun, 04 May 2025 16:53:07 +0100
Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> wrote:

I created a passkey using Bitwarden. I didn't get forced to use
microsoft anything.

Don't worry, that's probably the next logical step! "For your safety
and security ..."

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