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by throwawayffffas 227 days ago
Oh my point is that their device attestation thing is security theater.

It's clearly just for getting that iso certification.

It's a power play by the platform vendors.

The vendors are literally saying:

We now have this "security" feature and banks have to use it to be compliant and it only works on our platforms, so I guess you have to use our platform unless you want to be unbanked.

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I mean, I would agree that it's not a particularly useful thing for consumer-phone-bank usecases, but that doesn't mean the feature is bad (or harmful).

Just to be clear, no one is saying

> banks have to use it to be compliant

nor are they saying

> it only works on our platforms

As far as I know, if systems were to use attestation it would be in a lot of senses more open than what attestation is available today (in the sense that more devices could use it). But also I don't think anyone who works on passkeys is saying banks need to support FIDO attestation to be "compliant".