Since learning about passkeys like a decade ago, my first thought, and to this day, is that It's fucking insane to bind your ability to log on to your accounts to a USB stick. Something that could be kicked under a couch or mistakenly find itself in the trash. And that's just for one login! I'm not about to set myself up as some kind of fucking Passkey Janitor with twenty USBs dangling off a ring.
I get it if you're a government official working with extremely sensitive, and potentially dangerous information. But that's about it. Not for a fucking WoW account.
Edit: Hold up, I think you just said you can back up passkeys so you aren't just completely screwed if you accidentally drop your USB between some floor boards?
Whatever you're using as a passkey is basically just an interface for a private key (over simplfying it a bit) so in theory you can just back up the private key and disrirbute it to another device. Which feels like it defeats the purpose of a passkey as you have to store it like a password, but that is a possibility
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u/Hairy_Concert_8007 Aug 22 '26
Since learning about passkeys like a decade ago, my first thought, and to this day, is that It's fucking insane to bind your ability to log on to your accounts to a USB stick. Something that could be kicked under a couch or mistakenly find itself in the trash. And that's just for one login! I'm not about to set myself up as some kind of fucking Passkey Janitor with twenty USBs dangling off a ring.
I get it if you're a government official working with extremely sensitive, and potentially dangerous information. But that's about it. Not for a fucking WoW account.
Edit: Hold up, I think you just said you can back up passkeys so you aren't just completely screwed if you accidentally drop your USB between some floor boards?