this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2025
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I'm still skeptical about passkeys. Tying your auth to a specific physical device feels like a recipe for being locked out (as has happened to many people at work already...requiring me to remove their passkey so they can get back in to their account...)
This is why you should always have a backup method of logging in. For hardware security keys they always recommend having a second key as backup.
Passkeys are a shortcut, not the main authentication, and you're supposed to back them up.