{"id":689906,"date":"2026-06-07T14:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T14:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/689906\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T14:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T14:23:08","slug":"experts-say-we-should-use-passkeys-but-can-a-smartphone-pin-really-be-safer-than-a-password-life-and-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/689906\/","title":{"rendered":"Experts say we should use passkeys, but can a smartphone PIN really be safer than a password? | Life and style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">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 class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">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 class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Sorry if that sounds simplistic, but I am genuinely stumped to understand why the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/apr\/24\/what-is-a-passkey-how-does-it-work-and-why-is-it-better-than-a-password\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UK\u2019s National Cyber Security Centre<\/a> and others who know about these things are so sold on passkeys. Can anyone who\u2019s used them enlighten me? Martin Avis, Chester<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Post your answers (and new questions) below or send them to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2026\/jun\/07\/mailto:nq@theguardian.com\" data-link-name=\"in body link \" https:=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">nq@theguardian.com<\/a>. A selection will be published next Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I\u2019ve been struggling to get my head around the idea that a passkey, which can be a PIN&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":689907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[165,74],"class_list":["post-689906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-mobile","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}