FUCK. THAT.
Passkeys are evil. I will avoid as long as I possibly can.
Redmond’s decision to kill off SMS verification comes down to the undeniable fact that text messages are no longer a secure way to protect your digital identity
Maybe, but that has nothing at all to do with why Microsoft and other large corps are doing this all at the same time. The reason is to eliminate the last vestiges of anonymity and the ability to control your own computer and experience. It’s a concerted operation that has many moving parts. Among them: attempting to eliminate any anonymous presence online via all the “think about the children” acts winding their way through the legislative bodies of various countries, hardware attestation, forced TPM, this effort, and many more.
In my daily workflow, the passwordless ecosystem is genuinely fantastic. I use Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Password Manager, and the Microsoft Authenticator app across all my devices. Thanks to the IR camera on my Lenovo laptop, Windows Hello face recognition makes logging into my personal Microsoft account a breeze.
Fucking Christ, what a dipshit. Well, most people are fully captured. Soon it’ll be hard to resist as hardware attestation comes to the fore and offering any pushback gets you debanked and things like that.
What a worthless propaganda piece. And what deep evil all this is going to be.