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.
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.