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by tialaramex 1954 days ago
I guess. However, I'd add that it's also definitely a sensible thing to require of people, however non-technical, where you've got some out-of-band way to issue and re-issue these authenticators to those people.

Suppose you're Twitter. If every Twitter employee has a FIDO2 device and they need to tap it to begin their work day, and to confirm any important actions like "Block YetAnotherNazi" or "Validate that this Twitter account really does represent Jim's 24 hour Celery and Dog Collar Deliveries" then instantly a bunch of your security problems disappear, and all you need are your existing procedures that stop random people walking into your offices off the street and pretending to be employees, which, I'm going to guess, is already a problem you've got at Twitter.

I can't see any reason a university wouldn't do this for its students for example. Or a hospital for its medical staff. Or a police force for... all the cops. These are very easy to use, with that one sharp edge of "What if I lose it?" which is not a problem if your organisation already has procedures to ensure only the right people get physical ID.