Most people just need to fear their passwords being cracked remotely. In masses.
If your threat model is being known, people stealing your stuff to login to your things, this is very high.
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veniasilente@lemm.ee 4 months agoBut that can be said of any of the other such called factors:
A yubikey can be stolen
A fingerprint can be scanned and distributed
So its not really an argument against passwords (or passkeys, or passwordless, or whatever marketing want to call them these days).
boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 4 months ago
AlwaysTheir@lemmy.one 4 months ago
My yubikey can be stolen but good luck guessing my PIN in the 3 to 9 tries allowed before it self destructs.
veniasilente@lemm.ee 4 months ago
luck? I have a $5* wrench.
* (Actually a $7 wrench. Inflation is murder around here.)
AlwaysTheir@lemmy.one 4 months ago
If you have me… you win. My technology however will never betray me.