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bradley13 ◴[] No.45106324[source]
This. All of this. Passkeys are a great idea, but the walled gardens are a huge problem. Also, services placing additional requirements (e.g., attestations) that potentially violate your privacy and anonymity.

Just now, at least in Europe, there is a huge push to force users to authenticate themselves with their actual identity, even for ordinary Internet services. This is happening simultaneously in many countries (including non-EU countries like Switzerland). It almost has to be a coordinated effort....driven by whom? Passkeys play into this.

Call me paranoid...

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1. palata ◴[] No.45108899[source]
Walled gardens are a huge problem, but they are orthogonal to passkeys. We have had walled gardens for a loooong time already. We should fight them, I agree.

But passkeys are just a way of democratising private keys instead of passwords.

Sure, there will be examples of walled gardens leveraging passkeys. But we have plenty of examples of walled gardens that don't need passkeys at all. It's a different problem.