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[–] [email protected] 35 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

This vulnerability has nothing to do with password strength or security and everything to do with password reset security, i.e. email and improper handling of parameters to that reset API call.

Passkeys are interesting and potentially quite strong but they're going to have to fall back to the same old reset mechanism if you e.g. drop your passkey device (phone) into a lake.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Or just make it clear your account is gone if you lose your passkey, so have a second key for backup or learn a hard lesson.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, good luck with that. You can tell someone "if you lose this token, all data are unrecoverable", they'll reply with "ok, got it!" and about two and a half second later call you saying "Hey I lost my token can you recover my data?".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Hence the "hard lesson" part. A lot of us tech-focused people learned the same lesson with our document backup systems. You lose some important documents, then you realize you really should backup your stuff. All I hope is these people learn the lesson earlier in life before the consequences become more and more severe.