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Doesn't the idea of needing a piece of hardware for every CAPTCHA seem even worse? They claim that's going to take 5 seconds?
There are a lot of people pushing for replacing passwords and all sorts of logins with such tokens, so I guess the idea is that if everyone has one of these on their keychain anyways...
I can see the advantages security wise, but I fear that it will lead to a culture of always using the same token and linking that to some official ID. This sounds like something governments would really like, but it would have a lot of privacy disadantages obviously.
On a side note: if that happens, these keys will become fashion accessiors very soon ;)
Why should I destroy my USB slot by constantly pulling the thing out, sticking it in, wiggling with my finger and whatnot?
I have a FIDO2 USB dongle, but I rarely use it. Sonetimes I use the TPM or fTPM of my mainboard. If people used password managers, they wouldn't need these hardware tokens. Apart from the fact you can only store a very limited amount of keys with limited encryption algorithms on them, and I bet the marketing industry finds a way to track you through them.