Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain
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The author criticizes the rollout of passkeys, arguing that they were designed by engineers who don't understand how ordinary consumers think, and expresses confusion even as a tech company founder.
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I run a tech company and I have no idea what a passkey is and at this point I’m too afraid to ask.
Imagine you’re a boomer and you just figured out how to store your passwords and now then Google is like “hey there’s this thing called a passkey and it’s a fingerprint or a face scan or a random store of digits or try a penile biometric scan it might work we don’t really know how it works man”
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