Passkeys are a lie (or are they)

Greetings, secure people of reddit :) i hope i picked the right flair. in short, i dont get passkeys.

I mean I think I understand the encryption and the public/private key sharing between servers and devices, but I dont really see how they make us more secure.

Im not adopting any passkeys for this reason whereas it seems the entire industry and their grandmas have jumped on the passkey hype train and i truly believe i must be missing the …

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