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“Passkeys,” the secure authentication mechanism built to replace passwords, are getting more portable and easier for organizations to implement thanks to new initiatives the FIDO Alliance announced on Monday.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

The real problem is not passwords so much as trusted sources. Governments should have an email account that citizens have a right to and will not go away and have local offices to verify access issues.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

I don't want my government hosting my email.

The last time they had to do anything important they stoled all the sensitive data in plain text in an Excel spreadsheet and then the spreadsheet got corrupted so they lost everything. Of course they didn't have backups.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

But at least since it was stolen, the backup was hosted for free on the hacker forums /s

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 15 hours ago

I bet the gov would love to host your email and have access to all the same info Google does...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 hours ago

Whatever you're smoking, do less of that