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New Pass-ta-key attack reveals all the things we didn't know about passkeys
arstechnica.com/security/2026/08/heres-why-the-new-pass-ta-key-attack-is-mostly-a-nothingburger/
Ars TechnicaNew Pass-ta-key attack reveals all the things we didn't know about passkeysWhy passkey apps treat Windows differently than other operating systems.Replying to @vegeta@lemmy.world
Malware installed on a device running macOS, iOS, and Android, for instance, has no ability to defeat this isolation unless the OS itself is compromised through some sort of exotic zero-day exploit. So far, these assumptions have been proven correct in real-world practice.
The lone exception is Windows.
Mmmmm.
From my understanding it is the same on linux though, theres no sandbox preventing an app or malware from accessing anothers app data