John Siracusa

What are the biggest pitfalls of, or excuse me, what are the biggest benefits of passkeys for someone like me, who's a faithful user of tools like 1Password for managing traditional passwords and two-factor codes?

What are the real risks of passkeys?

Am I being foolish to worry about scenarios where my Apple devices are all lost in a house fire, now I'm locked out of every account?

With 1Password, everything is backed up in the cloud, and I can keep my emergency logging credentials on a single sheet of paper in a safe deposit box.

Are pass keys equally resilient?

And I will also add a fourth question.

What about family passwords?

My understanding is that you can share pass keys or maybe not originally, but certainly now.

But there's a lot of stuff that, you know, one of the great things about 1Password is that it has family vaults or you can get a family account with a family vault where, you know, Aaron and I will share a bunch, if not most of our passwords.

So I know nothing about this, even though I should.

I don't know, Marco, if you have thoughts on this, and let's start with you if so, but I'd very much like to hear John's perspective as well.

All right.

Well, it sounds like I'm going to need to start embracing them then.

John Fabridius writes, do you think that the eight gigs of RAM constraint in the MacBook Neo helps keep or make macOS lean, a self-imposed limitation that can prevent lazy bloat, or is the iOS team cursing the hardware cost-cutting people?

Well, probably a little of both, right?

I don't know.

I will say that...

I'm friends with a handful of Apple engineers and without disclosing, and they've never told me anything secret, but without like blowing up their spot or anything, I will say that all of them talk about perf or performance a lot.

Like, you know, just, oh, I've been working on some perf stuff lately and that's all they'll ever tell me.

It's never anything more than that.