Comment by linkregister
5 days ago
Virtually every authority on passkeys is going to have an industry connection. Just like how most climate change authorities receive funding to do climate research, how SEC investigators typically have backgrounds in banking, open source military analysts are veterans, etc.
It's not because people are bought by the powers that be, it's the way the world works. People enter the fields they have expertise in.
The guy literally owns a business in this space and has a huge financial incentive to push passkey adoption. Technically he has an "industry connection" just like millions of other people who work in tech and happen to know about passkeys through other work, but conflating the two is wildly misleading. His perspective is as far away from unbiased as possible.
Research funding is hardly perfect, but most of the people studying climate change are doing actual research and trying to draw evidence based conclusions that hold up under peer review. Their incentives are not the same as a tech founder who could potentially make generational wealth if one particular outcome is realized.
I don't disagree, but "he has inventive to say X" doesn't mean "what he says about X is wrong" It's a fallacy, we should attack the argument, and not the person. This person also very clearly mentioned all of this (in the "sources" section), this is not some underhanded opinion piece.
Having said that I am strongly anti-passkey so I don't need any convincing, but I prefer technical arguments.