The main concern is that attested passkey requirement will now be the easiest way to force specific software and hardware upon user. The GraphenOS example is a good one.
Exactly, and it doesn’t take any effort to come up with software that will make it impossible for most people to even consider doing things a different way than big tech wants them to. Download the wrong app, use the wrong OS, attempt in any way to reclaim your privacy, and all of a sudden you can’t be authorized to open your own banking app because of some bullshit “security” message. What option does that leave you? Either become a hermit and reject all technology with whatever cost that has for you, especially in a decade or two as technology transitions to something completely mandatory for everyone, or fall in line and use everything the way they intend you to.
This is already the reality without passkeys. The correct response is to bank with a bank that isn’t enabling Google’s monopoly. Pretend passkeys don’t exist–nothing’s changed. You still can’t use your bank’s app without a Google Account if your bank is an enabler of Google’s monopoly. So… again, myopic dimwits are getting angry at something, but don’t know what. They’ve latched onto passkeys though. Amusing.
Exactly, and it doesn’t take any effort to come up with software that will make it impossible for most people to even consider doing things a different way than big tech wants them to. Download the wrong app, use the wrong OS, attempt in any way to reclaim your privacy, and all of a sudden you can’t be authorized to open your own banking app because of some bullshit “security” message. What option does that leave you? Either become a hermit and reject all technology with whatever cost that has for you, especially in a decade or two as technology transitions to something completely mandatory for everyone, or fall in line and use everything the way they intend you to.
This is already the reality without passkeys. The correct response is to bank with a bank that isn’t enabling Google’s monopoly. Pretend passkeys don’t exist–nothing’s changed. You still can’t use your bank’s app without a Google Account if your bank is an enabler of Google’s monopoly. So… again, myopic dimwits are getting angry at something, but don’t know what. They’ve latched onto passkeys though. Amusing.