Editorialized title. Original title: "Apple, Microsoft, and Google want you to go passwordless. Here’s what that means". Editorialized to: "Why this might be a bad idea: APPL MSFT and Google want you to go passwordless".

Article doesn't seem to have any negative coverage. More like:

> But thankfully, a solution to the password problem will soon let you log into your app and browser-based services without a password. Yes, you read that right; you’ll be able to kill off a chunk of your passwords for good.

I've kind of been neutral here. I've thought it stupid that these devices resist cloneability, that seems like it forces usage of other recovery flows & mainly protects big corporate interests at tradeoff to usability.

But right now I thought of one reason why these devices are somewhat a bad idea. I'm not totally sure of the accuracy, but I seem to remember passwords & combination locks are protected under the 5th ammendment right to not self-incriminate, but things like keys are not. I'm not sure there's any legal standing that protects a user of these devices from being compelled to turn them over.

Arguments for why this might be a bad idea.