Editorialized title. Original title: "Apple, Microsoft, and Google want you to go passwordless. Here’s what that means". Editorialized to: "Why this might be a bad idea: APPL MSFT and Google want you to go passwordless".<p>Article doesn't seem to have any negative coverage. More like:<p>> <i>But thankfully, a solution to the password problem will soon let you log into your app and browser-based services without a password. Yes, you read that right; you’ll be able to kill off a chunk of your passwords for good.</i><p>I've kind of been neutral here. I've thought it stupid that these devices resist cloneability, that seems like it forces usage of other recovery flows & mainly protects big corporate interests at tradeoff to usability.<p>But right now I thought of one reason why these devices are somewhat a bad idea. I'm not totally sure of the accuracy, but I seem to remember passwords & combination locks are protected under the 5th ammendment right to not self-incriminate, but things like keys are not. I'm not sure there's any legal standing that protects a user of these devices from being compelled to turn them over.