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Toward a Passwordless Future

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The strategy historically has been to shame people for using bad passwords whenever their account gets hacked, which has prevented us from seeing the fundamental issues with the way we authenticate and instead making it every individual's responsibility to somehow fight the incentives of the system they rely on. A common theme with passwords, and frankly many other things in the tech world, is stapling band-aid solutions on top of them to try and make them fit a modern use case they were never meant to serve. Passkeys operate using public-key cryptography just like how HTTPS works, so your private key isn't stored on the service provider's server, completely eliminating data breach issues with passwords.

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