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- privacy@lemmy.ml
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Great writeup
I’ve noticed a couple of sites pushing these things. I decline.
I’m glad physical books and long walks outdoors are still good alternatives, as long as I leave my phone at home.
I suspect it won’t be optional in the future, though. More and more there aren’t non-digital options to important functions. How long before we’re all forced to bank online, and those who can’t are dragged along by some sort of hodgepodge solution using public kiosks? They’ll force new accounts to be online only, and wait for the naysayers to die off. Cash will be outlawed.
In some countries we are already actually forced to use banking on or phones. People like it a lot, but older people are struggling or forgetting about it and enduring. I hate it because of this exactly, the way older people is getting left behind.
Amazon keeps pushing me to use them and I can say without a doubt that it’s a shit idea to use them for a shared household. I’ll stay on a password with TOTP please and thank you.
I can only assume the article was written by a petulant child.
The author is bemoaning lack of agency on services they never had agency over. Twitter, Netflix, Google’s Android et. al. are all private dictatorships. It is not up to you whether they implement user-defined passwords or some other mechanism of authentication. Already these commercial enterprises use more than just a password. They look at machine and browser behavior, yet there’s not a peep about this ‘background’ analysis that determines whether a remote-computer can interact with the private-dictatorship’s corporate computer-resources. It is just as authoritarian as any example they wrote about.
The entire rant is a rant against passkeys’ security: they’re secure and because they’re secure they’re bad. It’s nonsensical text dressed up as, “but they might do nebulous bad things!” They’re already doing bad things, yet like a child, the author doesn’t want to change their behavior. They want to continue being a good little consumer piggy in the play-pen of surveillance-capitalism. You never had agency here: grow up. No one gives a shit if your consumer brain-dead mind can or can’t share a Netflix password.
Government agencies are members of these associations because economies are becoming more and more dependent on software and computers: it’s in their nations’ interests to secure these digital systems.
Again, using Apple’s iPhone, Google’s Android or Microsoft’s Windows is subjecting yourself to a private dictatorship. To then complain about something that annoys you whilst you continue to voluntarily subjugate yourself is absolutely moronic.
Nothing was written of hardware-passkeys. That is passkeys that reside on physical tokens. Passkeys are more secure than user-defined passwords; passkeys are more secure than user-defined passwords with a weak second-factor such as via e-mail or SMS; Passkeys are more secure than user-defined passwords with a TOTP code.
You can use hardware-passkeys on libre-computers, or mangled-mutts like Nura. This was conveniently not mentioned at all.
