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>Passwords are dumb for most use cases. They’re okay if you follow best practices, the thing is 99% of people don’t. So most people re-use passwords, and if asked to create new ones they append a character or something ineffective.

This may be dependent on your social. Everyone I know uses password managers, even at work. So they have different passwords for every account and browser/phone extensions or apps to fill them in.

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That only solves half of the problem though. Since many people do not use password managers (and thus potentially reuse their passwords, there's still an incentive to obtain stored password hashes. With passkeys, the public keys stored in any given provider's database are useless—so any provider switching to Passkeys rids themselves of a big attack vector. Just think about a possible feature without rainbow tables, large credential leaks, and so on. That's what Passkeys enable.

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