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by nicolas_17 650 days ago
You also have to pull the emergency backup out of the safe when signing up for a new thing. It's highly inconvenient.
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Still more convenient than getting locked out.
True, but what's even more convenient than that is to just not use hardware authenticators for anything but the most important accounts/sites, and e.g. use syncing credentials (as provided by many password managers, Google, and Apple).

The fraction of people willing to regularly schedule enroll-o-ramas at each of their accounts and each of their backup key locations is probably smaller than a percent of all potential WebAuthN users.

It becomes questionable if you’re halfway across the world from your safe.