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cjcampbell | 11 months ago

You don’t necessarily have to disable anything, but choose not to use the secondary device authentication flow.

Let’s say that you rely on the passkey implementation in your password manager and have that installed directly on your laptop. When you hit the legitimate site, your password manager prompts for user verification and to approve the login.

When you hit the phishing site and have the QR code pop up, it’s the first indication that something is wrong but the attacker doesn’t have your session yet. Your laptop is not listening for a BLE connection. That only occurs when you scan the QR from your phone and complete the authentication flow there.

In other words, it’s totally opt-in at log in time to use BLE and protecting yourself just means deciding it’s not a feature you trust. If you still aren’t comfortable though, the next move would probably be to just disable Bluetooth on one side or the other.

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lostmsu|11 months ago

It is hard to remember which websites have passkeys on laptop, and which only on the phone.