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?

  • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    7 months ago

    Ideal MFA:

    Something you have.

    Something you know.

    Something you are.

    If getting married, add:

    Something blue.

    • Vordimous@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      7 months ago

      Fun fact, I frequently use the word blue as my security question answers. Not all of them but enough that even if a person got to “know” me enough to know what city I was born, they wouldn’t know which answers are true or which are blue.

      • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        9·
        7 months ago

        Yeah security questions like that are the dumbest goddamn thing. “Create a super secure password that no one can guess, and enter the answers of five trivia questions about yourself that are likely in the public record about you or that you’ll happily reveal in small talk with strangers just in case you forget that super secure password.”