This seems like the opening of another horror movie…

This is like one of those heist movie posters. You can tell: they are off to no good.

There are two types of passkey. Syncable and device-bound. (see https://fidoalliance.org/passkeys/). Theoretically, the device-bound passkeys never leave the device and users don’t have any access to it except to use it for authentication. The syncable type will first and foremost be synced by the platforms themselves (Google, Microsoft, and Apple), but eventually the 3rd-party password managers will be allowed to be sync providers, but possibly only on newly-released OSes.

As far as I know, the passkey implementations currently on Android and Windows are device-bound; they are not synced to the cloud.

It works for Google, Adobe, and Github for me, on Firefox; those are all the sites I use that support passkeys. It even works with Firefox on Android 13.

Do you have Windows hello enabled? You may want to investigate this more.

This is from the horse’s mouth: https://fidoalliance.org/passkeys/

It is a FIDO alliance protocol. This is meant to replace/supplement password, not as 2FA. The sites I use that implement it, Google, Adobe, and Github use it to supplant both the password and 2FA. Cool thing about it is more less: 1) unphishable 2) doesn’t matter if the website’s passphrase data leaks.

Good question. My bad.

And Tiktok!

Firefox ESR 102.15 & windows 11 (Hello) seem to work fine.

Yeah, neither seems likely any time soon.

Ah, the lure of power.

Yeah, it spreads to everybody that is a “threat” to the power that be.

a person of interest

Thanks for the reminder.

article:

journalists, opposition politicians, and activists

wikipedia: pretty much anybody of interests of the people with the ability to acquire the service

journalists, lawyers, political dissidents, and human rights activists

scholars, bureaucrats (India)

politicians: head of stead (Iraq), mayors (Israel), associates (Israel), politicians (Israel), son of prime-minister (Israel), presidential candidate and associates (Mexico), prime minister (Morocco), King (Morocco)

government employees (Israel), government officials (Israel), ex government officials (Israel), military officials (Morocco)

employees of government-owned companies (Israel),

suspects (Israel), drug cartels (Mexico), criminal (Netherlands)

civil society members

heads of corporations (Israel)

Panama: foreign spying, including for spying on political opponents, magistrates, union leaders, and business competitors, with Martinelli allegedly going so far as to order the surveillance of his mistress using Pegasus.[5]

Thx. You don’t seem to be the only one.

In July 2022, Charlie Osborne of ZDNet suggested that individuals who suspect a Pegasus infection use a secondary device with GrapheneOS for secure communication.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-find-and-remove-spyware-from-your-phone/

Well, that’s most terrifying. Can you do anything about it except not using smartphones?

Hey, that’s how I find out the world news nowadays. Submarine implosion, armed rebellion, mysterious plane crash, those all came through.

Yeah, no Google either. I heard Apple is currently spending over a million dollar a day for AI training. Soon, you’ll have something beyond Siri.

I wonder if, for Meta, being open-sourced wouldn’t fit the company with the rest. Also, for now, it looks like a publicity stunt with no real teeth. Those more substantial AI companies maybe holding out for more favorable treatments.

The SSD’s performance is so high, it’s pretty much possessed. Sleeping function would probably require incantation.

Opting out is likely impossible for people living outside the GDPR area right now.