Using passkey gives up no more personal information than a username/password. Moving to linux is good for all sorts of reasons though.Just what I want, Micro$oft harvesting my biological data, too! I really need to get on switching my Desktop to Linux Mint (already got the laptop done).
The comment "Passkeys, which involve the use of biometric identification like a fingerprint or face scan, PIN, and the like" is really odd, I though about commenting on it above. There is nothing biometric about passkeys. Passkeys is a communication standard not a software standard. It is integrated quite well into the hardware devices that really provide multi-factor authentication, some of which have biometric identification, and that is acknowledged in the FIDO Passkey standard, and these devices can have prior attestation through that standard, but it is not required.
I have not used Windows for some years, but I think the OS developers have a big role to play in this. Something like KeePassXC should be built into the OS and passed seamlessly through the browser. As some said in the other thread, there is a adoption cost in terms of time and effort to use passkeys, and it should be easier. If Windows is moving in that direction it could be a good thing, but I do not hear all the Windows users telling me how easy passkeys are to use on that so I am not sure they are doing a very good job. I am not in a good position to say however, has anyone here tried to get passkeys working with a Windows 11 box? Have they made it easier?
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