Martin Avis from Chester wrote in asking if a passkey is safer than a complicated password. The answer arrived from the Pocket Sparrow, a small clerk who lives behind the glass and remembers four numbers at a time.
She says yes. Passkeys are unphishable. They stay on the device, never on a company's shelf. The cybercrims cannot reach them.
The man behind Martin on the bus can, though. He has been reading over Martin's shoulder since Crewe. He knows it is 4-1-9-2. He knows Martin's mother's name. He knows where Martin keeps the spare key.
The Pocket Sparrow shrugs. She was hired for cryptography, not for the 8:14 to Chester.
Did you know a single fig is technically a small graveyard for one wasp?
Based on the original article "Experts say we should use passkeys, but can a smartphone PIN really be safer than a password?".
