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Passkeys are not a trap. Use them!
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this post was submitted on 14 Oct 2026
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Those two categories aren't really meaningful, but even if you consider them to be, passwords (apart from a master password for your password manager) also should never be in the "things you know" category, because then it means you've memorized them, and are not using a password manager to generate completely random ones.
And unless you've got an incredible memory that can memorize unique passwords like "+28x@!8eaEak!" for 10+ sites, then you're likely using a pattern or single password than can be compromised.
I do consider the master password to my password manager as my "thing I know", and not the randomly generated passwords it stores. But you're saying that have-vs-know is not really important in the security space, that was mostly just a handy shorthand?
so are passkeys just a simplified workflow version of the complicated dance I have to do on windows to get git commits to push easily with the public key from putty-gen? But also the private key is sometimes locked to the device it was generated on? I guess I should read some actual technical docs on em.