This is how the surveillance blob will get around the huge backlash to Apple's mandatory on-device child abuse scanning, close off any avenues to escape it before re-introducing mandatory on-device spying.
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This is how the surveillance blob will get around the huge backlash to Apple's mandatory on-device child abuse scanning, close off any avenues to escape it before re-introducing mandatory on-device spying.
Great opportunity for mandatory remote attestation and mandatory software.
Mobile phones are the only platform at the moment that can reasonably be used to enforce mandatory software installs and remote attestation. Removing sideloading can down the road leading to Google (or Apple for IOS) forcing all app store provided apps/browsers to support government authentication APIs like this.
As soon as Asahi supports TouchID, I think my M1 will become a linux laptop...
But yeah, anything resembling a phone passkey seems to have a sync fabric behind it.
Anything Apple related is another story...
There's some good movement in the linux desktop space I'm excited about: https://github.com/linux-credentials/linux-webauthn-platform...
Oh, so they're just rebranding and not making it a dongle anymore....