{"id":95361,"date":"2024-12-30T12:00:53","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T12:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/passkey-technology-is-elegant-but-its-most-definitely-not-usable-security\/"},"modified":"2024-12-30T12:00:53","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T12:00:53","slug":"passkey-technology-is-elegant-but-its-most-definitely-not-usable-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/passkey-technology-is-elegant-but-its-most-definitely-not-usable-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Passkey technology is elegant, but it\u2019s most definitely not usable security"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>It&#8217;s that time again, when families and friends gather and implore the more technically inclined among them to troubleshoot problems they&#8217;re having behind the device screens all around them. One of the most vexing and most common problems is logging into accounts in a way that&#8217;s both secure and reliable.<\/p>\n<p>Using the same password everywhere is easy, but in an age of mass data breaches and precision-orchestrated phishing attacks, it&#8217;s also highly unadvisable. Then again, creating hundreds of unique passwords, storing them securely, and keeping them out of the hands of phishers and database hackers is hard enough for experts, let alone Uncle Charlie, who got his first smartphone only a few years ago. No wonder this problem never goes away.<\/p>\n<p>Passkeys\u2014the much-talked-about password alternative to passwords that have been widely available for almost two years\u2014was supposed to fix all that. When I wrote about passkeys <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2023\/05\/passwordless-google-accounts-are-easier-and-more-secure-than-passwords-heres-why\/\">two years ago<\/a>, I was a big believer. I remain convinced that passkeys mount the steepest hurdle yet for phishers, SIM swappers, database plunderers, and other adversaries trying to hijack accounts. How and why is that?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/security\/2024\/12\/passkey-technology-is-elegant-but-its-most-definitely-not-usable-security\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/security\/2024\/12\/passkey-technology-is-elegant-but-its-most-definitely-not-usable-security\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time again, when families and friends gather and implore the more technically inclined among them to troubleshoot problems they&#8217;re having behind the device screens all around them. One of the most vexing and most common problems is logging into accounts in a way that&#8217;s both secure and reliable. Using the same password everywhere is easy, but in an age of mass data breaches and precision-orchestrated phishing attacks, it&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[241],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Passkey technology is elegant, but it\u2019s most definitely not usable security - UshopWell.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/passkey-technology-is-elegant-but-its-most-definitely-not-usable-security\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Passkey technology is elegant, but it\u2019s most definitely not usable security - UshopWell.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It&#8217;s that time again, when families and friends gather and implore the more technically inclined among them to troubleshoot problems they&#8217;re having behind the device screens all around them. 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