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If they want to be a Boomer and stick to 20th century solutions, why should I care?

If it works for them, fine. Nothing wrong with that.

It’s obviously not working for most people. Most people reuse weak passwords and get their passwords hacked. Passkeys solve that for those users.

That’s why the whole industry is shifting to passkeys.

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Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
“It’s old so it’s bad” is not a very convincing argument.

I think he was wondering how technically the new solution is better, especially compared to password database solutions where complex password and password reuse isn’t an issue.

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- alvvayson@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I said the exact opposite. If the old thing works for you, go ahead and stay on it, but don’t complain about the rest of the world improving and moving forward.
  
  Why put quotes when you are misquoting…
  
  And I answered him, he just doesn’t want to know. I can’t solve that.
  
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  - Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    You’re mentioning how it’s an old solution as if that was some sort of argument. If you’re not using it as an argument then it seems kinda pointless to bring it up.
    
    I said the exact opposite. If the old thing works for you, go ahead and stay on it, but don’t complain about the rest of the world improving and moving forward.
    
    I’m not sure if you even realize you’re doing it but you’re doing it again, implying that it’s better because it’s newer. That’s not a very solid argument.
    
    And I answered him, he just doesn’t want to know. I can’t solve that.
    
    I know you’ve mentioned some aspects but I’m still wondering, in your opinion, what would be the technical reason that the password database model with long and complicated passwords would be worse than the passkey setup. Or is it that they’re as good but passkey might be a lot simpler to some folk?
    
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    alvvayson@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Sorry, your arguing against some strawman here.
    
    Keep using passwords if that’s your preferred solution.
    
    Not my beef if you can’t see how MFA is stronger than something that can be copy-pasted in a MITM attack.
    
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- Natanael@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Webauthn has domain bindings and single use challenges which prevents MITM credential stealing, etc
  
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wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
It kinda sounds like you dont actually know whats wrong, and are just blindly following the trends.

Doesnt that make you the boomer?

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- alvvayson@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Sure. I am become the Boomer lol.
  
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HubertManne@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
oh man. so I am a boomer. good to know.

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