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If you are comfortable using a cross-platform app like 1password, then passkeys can be a pretty great user experience even across ecosystems.

But Passkeys have a huge problem: They assume you will never have your device(s) stolen or broken or otherwise made inaccessible.

What happens if you're out of the country on holiday and your phone/laptop gets stolen and you need to log into your account(s) from a brand new device? You're mostly shit out of luck if you use passkeys. Especially because most peoples' backups/account recovery is a google email or icloud account which...requires you to have a known device handy to access them or set them up on a new machine.



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