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submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Google is moving that way with passkeys. I think it'll catch on with many people.

Just cut the passwords out and go straight to unlocking with a device.

That said not sure what happens if you lose your device.

[–] Baines 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

don’t even have to lose the device

phone is the most common, plenty of ways in from mitm attacks (insecure wifi for example) to social eng the account phone provider

guess you could go the dongle route but if it was super common thieves would just target them

[–] asdfasdfasdf 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I think the question is less about getting hacked and more about getting permanently locked out of your account.

[–] Baines 6 points 11 months ago

sure but it shouldn’t be, any good process will have some recovery method

course that can be a vulnerability as well

thank god recovery questions are dead

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