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Passkeys solve this-Oh wait.

Malware can just steal cookies and ne'er-do-wells can read access tokens from localStorage with XSS.

Edit: Experts, please show how passkeys prevent local cookie theft by infostealer malware and cross-site scripting attacks targeting long-lived auth tokens in localStorage (which isn't subject to HttpOnly/Secure restrictions).



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