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OAuth (piefed.europe.pub)

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[–] enumerator4829@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

I mean, the passkey is still in there. It’s protected by convention. It’s a bearer token wrapped in a password manager, presented as a revolution.

We have the technology, can we please pour the same amount of resources into what we’ve already had for decades? Passkeys solve the UX issue for ”normal people”, that’s the selling point.