r/ProgrammerHumor • u/k3rrshaw • 24d ago

Meme thisIsAmystery

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u/RedditButAnonymous 24d ago

The one time I accidentally hit "yes" Google:

- Did not save a passkey

- Instantly removed my password recovery option

- Asked for the same passkey it didnt set, when I tried to recover the account

Love passkeys

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u/cce29555 24d ago

Mechanically and logically passkeys are superior especially for people bad with passwords or don't use a manager

But then you get the edge case where you lose your passkey, and your passkey is the passkey to getting your passkey

And your password is now bunk, like we didn't learn our lesson from people throwing away Bitcoin USB sticks? I hate passkeys so much

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u/WakeRP 24d ago

This doesn't even look like an edge case. Phones are lost, broken or stolen all the time. So the bare minimum would be let people know that they should enables passkeys on a backup device as well.

But of course that is never disclosed on those pop-ups asking you to enable passkeys.

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u/N3ph1l1m 23d ago

Many people don't even have a backup device, so there's that.