Post by @rmondello@hachyderm.io

2026-09-08 15:15 UTC

@leo@60228.dev @tay@tech.lgbt Computers shouldn’t say no to taylor. But there are so many people losing accounts and money every day due to phishing scams. As a society, we need to protect those people. The workaround that vriska describes is available to you.

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@tay@tech.lgbt 2026-09-08 16:28

@rmondello@hachyderm.io @leo@60228.dev Yeah - I don't disagree. And I'll assume you've heard all this before, probably by people who claim this is all some big conspiracy by Big Tech or whatever, which I am not going to do. And honestly, I think this is generally me just venting frustration with not being trusted to make my own mistakes, and the greater industry wide concern around power & control, with Passkeys coming about in a time decisions the industry as a whole makes are so often, (often unintentionally) servicing those who wish to seize control from users, and being conveniently useful for those types. I do believe that as those who have the power to craft technology, with its great ability to impact humanity for good & bad, we have a duty to serve greater humanity, and I genuinely can & want to believe that the people behind Passkeys et all genuinely have the best of intentions (and have done great work so far), I don't think we, as programmers have done the best job at critically examining & resisting power structures.

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