I am just as confused as you are. I bought a google passkey to use with my
Chromebook but I have the same concerns you articulated. Any article I read
about this they don't really explain it in depth. It is as if they think
everybody has a laptop and a phone and that's it. And If someone gets ahold of
your passkey does that mean they have access to any of your devicses.
How secrure it that!
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From: Hardware <[email protected]> on behalf of Bino
Gopal <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2025 10:54 AM
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: [H] Passkeys and login security?
So I've been getting prompts for passkeys for a while now, and finally gave in
and set up a couple and stored them in 1Password...
Question is tho, has anyone found a way to set up one passkey that syncs across
all your devices, as normally it's device dependent?
Also, what about when you want to log in to an account for a new computer, or a
friend's computer, or a friend's phone, or a public terminal or when you're
traveling...? You still need the password in that case-if you're not using
your own mobile device, no? So it's not like you can turn password access off
unless you assume you'll never need to do that, no?
And I still have MFA set up on those accounts, so how is it any better to use
passkeys, especially if I use an app-and not SMS/email for the MFA?
Isn't password with MFA (especially if I need a physical Yubikey for access)
better than even passkeys and more useable in more instances?
Thoughts?
BINO
