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Anyone can implement passkeys. The feature where passkeys can be made to attest to the hardware provider is optional and no site I've used requires it. Firefox defaults to not allowing passkeys to attest to the hardware unless you click through a permission dialog.


I don't want to get into a Passkey derail, but no. The Passkey spec requires clients to handle the user's own data in certain ways, and the Passkey spec authors threaten clients that allow users to manage their own data with client bans.




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