The basic idea of passkeys used to be that they are generated on-device and never leave the secure element. So there was no way that they can get stolen or subpoenaed.

Then Apple, Google and Microsoft decided it is too much hassle for users to create a different passkey on each of their devices and that they might lose access to a service if a device with a key on it gets destroyed or lost.

So they threw this basic feature over board and added cloud synced passkeys. No idea how they did that, because of the "never leave the secure element"-premise, but here we are. Somehow they did it anyway.

Does that mean that my passkeys can now be potentially stolen by a skilled attacker who can attack the cloud service of my hardware vendor? And that all my passkeys to all my services must be handed over after a court order? Am I missing something?

Every time winning lottery numbers confirm to a pattern there are a lot of winners because many people base their bets on patterns.

Maybe use a VPN? Which is a good idea on any public network anyway.

OpenVPN does exactly what you need. You can link your locations with a site-to-site tunnel and include the nets on both sides.

https://openvpn.net/index.php/...

You can set one of the VPN gateways as the default gateway for the other net and OpenVPN runs on all sorts of hardware including WLAN routers and iOS devices.

You might want to take a look at
https://www.boxcryptor.com/en/...

What exactly constitues a cyberattack? Does it count if I ping one of their IP addresses and get dropped on the firewall?

I don't know much about why there are such restrictions, do they charge different amounts in different countries? Shouldn't it all be pretty much the same, money-wise? Is it an issue of censorship based on the particular country's politics?

It's all about the licenses. Most of the time a TV station with deep pockets buys the rights for a region for a given timeframe from the producers. And they wouldn't be too happy if you could binge watch a whole season on Netflix before they had time to show all the episodes on TV.

So unless Netflix outbids every TV station for the content rights all the time they will always have somebody crying for regional blocks.

Who uses an unsecured, unencrypted wireless network without tunneling all of the traffic through a VPN anyway?

Newer Operating Systems with more features perform slower on older hardware. Who would have guessed ...

Why didn't they test iPhones, too? Oh right. Because they encrypt their filesys by default and if you throw away the key before selling the buyer is locked out.

But it would be interesting to know if this really works for all the installed apps as well as for the system services.

They are not talking about prosecuting the real gamers if they violate laws or international treaties inside of a game.

They want game developers to include features in their games, that your game character has to face court martial if the gamer breaks laws or rules of engagement. So they want virtual consequenses for virtual crimes. Sounds fair enough for me.

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