“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.

  • @[email protected]
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    271 month ago

    Never forget that technologically speaking you’re nothing like the average user. Only 1 in 3 users use password managers. Most people just remember 1 password and use it everywhere (or some other similarly weak setup).

    Not remembering passwords is a huge boon for most users, and passkeys are a very simple and secure way of handling it.

    • @[email protected]
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      201 month ago

      I work for multiple organizations. The majority of which have a Google sheet with their passwords in that are

            c0mpanyname2018! 
      

      Those that aren’t are

             pandasar3cute123? 
      
      • Prison Mike
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        11 month ago

        I had to start hashing passwords and sending it to the haveibeenpwned API.

        I also fight with my users over data normalization because any time I add some rule (like don’t put “SO#” as part of the value of the “SO#” field), they’re too stupid to realize the point and find some other “hack” around it.