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The War on Passwords Is One Step Closer to Being Over (www.wired.com)
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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] 1 points 2 hours ago

In case the device gets lost/stolen, you should have a backup of the database that contained the passkeys. That's why I would be only using the implementations that allow doing that easily.