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It turns out a lot of people don’t understand passkeys.

I learned this after last week’s show, when people on our Discord server began chatting about our recap of best practices for online security.

Our group brought up plenty of technical points, being the awesome nerds they are. But as the conversation unfolded, misconceptions cropped up about passkeys and how they work. That surprised me—as did learning more than one of my colleagues doesn’t quite get them, either.

I ended up following up on t

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