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What a terrible headline.
Better: “Windows has such terrible security architecture that a compromised application can steal a user’s passwords, passkeys, and literally anything else.”
This is why passkeys were always supposed to be hardware tokens.
And yet were almost immediately converted to local storage for adoption reasons. Per the article.