iamkale, (edited )

I'm trying to manage my Microsoft Account protections, with an ultimate goal of protecting it with a passkey and maybe dropping my password to make the account truly paswordless. However I'm running into some weird idiosyncracies on https://account.live.com/proofs/manage/additional that have prevented me from achieving this:

  1. I couldn't actually see the WebAuthn option at all in the latest macOS Safari - I had to switch to macOS Chrome before the "Windows Hello" option appeared that let me then register an iCloud Keychain-synced passkey.
  2. I removed my phone number as a second factor because SIM jacking is a thing. However the next time I tried to log in I was prompted to add my phone number to "never lose access to your Microsoft account"...but I have other BETTER second-factors configured, so why would I want to continue to allow use of weak SMS OTP? At least I could cancel out and continue on without giving them my phone number again...
  3. Attempting to turn on "Passwordless account" forces you down a path that wants you to set up the Microsoft authenticator app. But I already have a synced passkey in the mix, so why are you bothering with app-based push? Push bombing is also an easy way to get past 2FA protections.

Another example of how the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing...

#microsoft #passkeys #passwordless

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