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Spy Community In Revolt As Passkey Adoption Grows

you can't always beat password out of people

News - 2026-08-26

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A phone with a fingerprint symbol in the center. The spy looking at it has no idea what to do. Cut off someone's finger? Will a picture work?

It's being reported that government spy agencies are in revolt now that more and more companies are enforcing Passkey usage. Gone are the days a spy could sneak around the dimly lit I.T. cubicles to find the shared password scribbled onto a post-it note. Now the passkey is tied to a trusted device with biometric locks and military grade encryption. The same military grade encryption everyone has access to, due to free open source libraries.

Without the ability to break into computer systems discreetly, they're just "...using our government checking accounts to drink and sleep around in luxurious locations. As fun as that is, there's more paperwork when missions are unsuccessful. It's bollocks. I heard 004 went on a rampage just beating people until they told him what he wanted to know. Which worked, but it's not classy. We're not the Americans, after all."

Yet another anonymous spy told us, "Password Managers were bad, but not everyone used them. Passkeys are different. This isn't the job I signed up for."

After speaking with a 'Chuck Finley' we got to the bottom of things. "I'm not a spy, but I've worked with a lot of them. They're always whinin' and bitchin' about one thing or another. If they're good at their jobs, they'll figure it out. Excuse me, bartender. Can I get another mojito. Where was I? Oh yeah. My buddy Weston over there had this problem just last week. He made a 3D printout of the person's thumb. Can you believe it! That got around biometrics and then stopped the gang from selling truckloads of stolen NFTs in Miami."