Please, please, please stop using passkeys for encrypting user data
Hacker News
February 28, 2026
Passkeys are the future of authentication, but using them for data encryption is a disaster waiting to happen. Overloading these credentials creates a dangerous blast radius that can lead to the irreversible loss of a user's most sacred memories and documents.
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Originally published on Hacker News on 2/28/2026