I think that last thing is key. The authors of these things published them with the express intent that other people would read them. Not that they would be used as training data.
Sign in with a QR code is dangerous though because at that point theres very little stopping QR phishing and forwarding the bluetooth request to your browser. See the most common Discord scam.
> forwarding the bluetooth request to your browser.
This isn't a thing. Discord's QR Code scanning is entirely a feature they made unrelated to passkeys or bluetooth. Passkey auth using a QR code has a step that verifies the proximity of both devices using BLE.
Amazon does benefit from increased account security; they don't have to refund non-fraudulent orders after all. For most people, a passkey is genuinely more secure.
I don't like passkeys either (I use a password manager anyway, and long secure unique passwords), but I understand the need. But yeah it really annoys me when every website wants to give me a passkey, or wants me to use a passkey, instead of just taking me to a page where I can enter my novel-length password.
Everything gets broken eventually. Every Nintendo console except the switch 2 is wide open. Even the "unbreakable" Xbox consoles were broken with Damage Control. Anything worth breaking will be broken, eventually, whether in software or by a mod chip.
But honestly, why do that when there's already a good, open-source(ish), well-designed, highly secure operating system platform that already runs Android apps? Any new clean sheet OS is either going to be worse than Android on one or more of these dimensions, or it will be absurdly expensive to vibe code.
Yeah this is something thats bothered me a lot recently. I'll ask "How did team A beat team B by so much?" and Claude will tell me "Actually, team B didn't win; team A won that game." I don't know how they got this thing to solve open math problems when it can't solve basic sports talk.
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