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> ...unique passwords per account...


Still not secure enough, sadly. They can be captured, leaked, stolen, phished, etc, and that's if you use them correctly.


Passkeys can't be stolen, got it. :)


Yep, hardware Passkeys can't.


Physically impossible to just take someone's HW token. And firmware/HW has no bugs, so malware taking the keys is also impossible to write. There were never ever any FIDO token vulnerabilities and never will be.




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