Google will now make passkeys the default for personal accounts - eviltoast
Support was first offered in May, but now Google suggests it as the default choice.

Passkey is some sort of specific unique key to a device allowing to use a pin on a device instead of the password. But which won’t work on another device.

Now I don’t know if that key can be stolen or not, or if it’s really more secure or not, as people have really unsecure pins.

  • jarfil@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    How Google can do to allow you to connect to another device if the first one is lost, not sure. But it would certainly either ask for a password and a 2fa method.

    That’s the key question. From what it seems, it would replace a password manager with different passwords for each website, but you give Google control of the master password.

    • Tibert@jlai.luOPEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      It is not for the password manager…

      It’s just to connect to the google account.

      It is not a service to connect to other ones without passwords.