> I'm imagining a world where all PCs/Macs/Smartphones have FIDO/WebAuthn and there's no other way to log in.
You won't have to imagine that for long, because that's the world we are sprinting towards.
Once practically everyone has accepted and adopted this system, governments (having already banned E2EE messaging apps by this point) will complain that Big Tech are allowing cyber-terrorists to maintain anonymous identities online and not doing enough to protect the children.
The offices of Apple, Google, and Microsoft would then receive calls from the national tax/anti-trust authorities saying the government was thinking of launching an audit/investigation into those companies and wouldn't it be a shame if something happened to their profit margin that year.
Within a few months we'd see these companies all "voluntarily" release software updates which add a "Citizen ID" field to every FIDO interaction, with those IDs being issued by a government API and verified using a bank card and facial recognition.
You won't have to imagine that for long, because that's the world we are sprinting towards.
Once practically everyone has accepted and adopted this system, governments (having already banned E2EE messaging apps by this point) will complain that Big Tech are allowing cyber-terrorists to maintain anonymous identities online and not doing enough to protect the children.
The offices of Apple, Google, and Microsoft would then receive calls from the national tax/anti-trust authorities saying the government was thinking of launching an audit/investigation into those companies and wouldn't it be a shame if something happened to their profit margin that year.
Within a few months we'd see these companies all "voluntarily" release software updates which add a "Citizen ID" field to every FIDO interaction, with those IDs being issued by a government API and verified using a bank card and facial recognition.