Are ‘passkeys’ better than passwords? This security expert says yes

Has your phone been prompting you for months to log into certain sites with a “passkey”? Security writer Kim Key of PC Mag explains why you might want to ditch your passwords in favor of passkeys.

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For months now, my phone has been nudging me to create passkeys. And every time it happens, I sort of pause because I don’t actually know what a passkey is or whether it’s something I actually need. I actually keep almost all of my passwords written down in the back of a secret notebook, which

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