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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (5 children)

change your account passwords, use a password manager and switch to passkeys wherever possible.

Can someone explain to me how passkeys are more secure / better than passwords?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

A super basic explanation as I understand it.

With a passkey the server (like Google) only has half of the passkey, you have the other half.

So having the server half be made public is still safe, as it's not useful on its own without the other half that you still have kept private.

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