Please, please, please stop using passkeys for encrypting user data

Simon Willison / simonwillison - Please, please, please stop using passkeys for encrypting user dataBecause users lose their passkeys all the time, and may not understand that their data has been irreversibly encrypted using them and can no longer be recovered.Tim Cappalli:To the wider i…

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