Comment on Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 19 hours agoIf it’s more convenient to be insecure than secure, users will pick insecure every time. There’s a reason there are so many bad password in the top passwords in breach dumps.
I have to tell myself every time I go through some of my login flows that inconvenience to me means more so to an attacker, but most people don’t have an adversarial mindset and just want it to work.
artyom@piefed.social 16 hours ago
User inconvenience is not at all the same thing as security.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
No, but the two tens to be correlated.
Example, MFA authentication is a security feature, but inconvenient as shit with low or no lifetime. Same complaints about short lived sessions on app sites. Especially when every login requires MFA…
artyom@piefed.social 12 hours ago
MFA can be a variety of different things. In the case of passkeys, a prompt comes up on the screen, you click it, and that’s it. It’s both secure and convenient. That’s why it’s great.