With iOS 26, Apple is finally solving one of the biggest passkey headaches
Apples egen info-video på lidt under 2 min. kan ses på https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/279/?time=1152
I øvrigt ser det ud til, at man fremover bør anvende termen passkey i stedet for password, da passkey er mere inklusiv.
Endnu en artikel om sikkerhed og brug af passkeys, indeholdende sidste nyt på den front:
Do these nine things to protect yourself against hackers and scammers
I artiklen kan man bl.a. læse flg. omkring passkeys:
Use passkeys where possible
Passwords are gradually being replaced by passkeys. While the difference might seem small in terms of how you login, there’s a huge difference in the security they provide.
With a passkey, a website or app doesn’t ask for a password, it instead asks your device to verify your identity. Your device uses Face ID or Touch ID to do so, then confirms that you are who you claim to be. Crucially, it doesn’t send a password back to the service, so there’s no way for this to be hacked – all the service sees is confirmation that you successfully passed biometric authentication on your device.
Det lyder virkelig som et kæmpe fremskridt - slut med passwords, som bliver hacket hvergang Google eller anden aktør bliver lænset for 40 millioner af brugerpasswords - hvorefter vi alle 40 millioner speeder rundt som myrer, der har fået kogende vand, for at rette de måske hundredevis af forskellige passwords, vi alle sammen har i dag.