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Passkeys are a trap. Do not use them
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this post was submitted on 12 Oct 2026
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Yeah, but if the big company wants to embed weird shit in their client software… A frontier model can reverse engineer the client, determine what satisfied the authentication request, and replicate the implementation elsewhere on our own terms. Can do this with less than $100 worth of compute. I know because I’m already compiling/sideloading iOS apps with Xcode on my Gentoo desktop — Apple can eat shit.
Then this turns into yet another arms race.
Hiding stuff in client side software never stopped being an arms race between the producer and consumer. LG TVs are a great example.