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