{"id":23407,"date":"2026-06-07T13:37:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T11:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/07\/experts-say-we-should-use-passkeys-but-can-a-smartphone-pin-really-be-safer-than-a-password\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T13:37:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T11:37:16","slug":"experts-say-we-should-use-passkeys-but-can-a-smartphone-pin-really-be-safer-than-a-password","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/07\/experts-say-we-should-use-passkeys-but-can-a-smartphone-pin-really-be-safer-than-a-password\/","title":{"rendered":"Experts say we should use passkeys, but can a smartphone PIN really be safer than a password?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The long-running series in which readers answer other readers\u2019 questions explores a topical issue of personal cybersecurity<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Readers reply: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2026\/jun\/07\/readers-reply-alien-music-playlist-first-contact\">If an alien asked you: \u2018What is music?\u2019 what would you play for them?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I\u2019ve been struggling to get my head around the idea that a passkey, which can be a PIN on your phone, or facial recognition, can be safer than using a complicated password, and two factor authentication.<\/p>\n<p>I get that having something unique to your device, not stored on a company\u2019s server is unphishable, and less hackable by cybercrims, but what if your phone is nicked and someone guesses the password? And what if you lose your phone?<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2026\/jun\/07\/passkeys-pin-password-cybersecurity\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/4c74b522d7ed123bf22b4ae931b3d420c3b18efa\/182_0_4800_3840\/master\/4800.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=4aca8377ee110a1944e6ac378042ec17\" title=\"Experts say we should use passkeys, but can a smartphone PIN really be safer than a password?\" \/>The long-running series in which readers answer other readers\u2019 questions explores a topical issue of personal cybersecurity<br \/>\nReaders reply: If an alien asked you: \u2018What is music?\u2019 what would you play for them?<br \/>\nI\u2019ve been struggling to get my head around the idea that a passkey, which can be a PIN on your phone, or facial recognition, can be safer than using a complicated password, and two factor authentication.<br \/>\nI get that having something unique to your device, not stored on a company\u2019s server is unphishable, and less hackable by cybercrims, but what if your phone is nicked and someone guesses the password? And what if you lose your phone? Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The long-running series in which readers answer other readers\u2019 questions explores a topical issue of personal cybersecurity Readers reply: If an alien asked you: \u2018What is music?\u2019 what would you play for them? I\u2019ve been struggling to get my head around the idea that a passkey, which can be a PIN on your phone, or &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/07\/experts-say-we-should-use-passkeys-but-can-a-smartphone-pin-really-be-safer-than-a-password\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Experts say we should use passkeys, but can a smartphone PIN really be safer than a password?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23407"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}