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Okay, but how is that the key's fault? This has literally nothing to do with the authentication method, it doesn't give you access to any other site or anything. It's just a social engineering attack on the service, and it's pretty much the only one left because everything else has been obsoleted by the use of hardware tokens for auth.


Not finding fault. The point of Webauthn is convenience - but the trade off is that if CTAP is compromised, it’s convenient for the attacker too.


I don't see how that's different from passwords, though. If your password gets compromised, it's game over as well, and it's much easier to compromise that.




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