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0 pointslapcat1y ago0 comments

> If you make a passkey on an Apple device as far as I can tell it will never leave that device, ever, and there is no way to change this.

That's not true. Passkeys actually require iCloud Keychain, which is obnoxious, because you can't use the OS passkey support without using iCloud. And you can't even manually export passkeys from iCloud Keychain, which is totally opaque.

So it is still platform lock-in, just not in the way you described.

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xcrunner5291y ago

So use a password manager still (1P). You can have multiple passkeys for different devices or keychains but no entering passwords or credentials. Still an improvement and far less vulnerable.

lapcatOP1y ago

1Password is a platform, one that has gotten worse over the years. They've taken a bunch of venture capital, switched to rental pricing, and apparently now demand that everything be in the "cloud". No thanks. I prefer to be my own password manager.

xcrunner5291y ago

I was just giving an example.

moscoe1y ago

Then perhaps Bitwarden… or do you have a bone to pick with them as well?

There are choices.

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0 pointslapcat1y ago0 comments

> If you make a passkey on an Apple device as far as I can tell it will never leave that device, ever, and there is no way to change this.

So it is still platform lock-in, just not in the way you described.

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xcrunner5291y ago

So use a password manager still (1P). You can have multiple passkeys for different devices or keychains but no entering passwords or credentials. Still an improvement and far less vulnerable.

lapcatOP1y ago

xcrunner5291y ago

I was just giving an example.

moscoe1y ago

Then perhaps Bitwarden… or do you have a bone to pick with them as well?

There are choices.

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