My Little Website's All Grown Up And Moving Out To Passkeys

PALO ALTO, CA — It was a bittersweet moment for Brett Wisson as he stood on his front step, watching his little website drive away for the last time, fully matured and ready to take on the world of online security with passkeys.

"Everything a project manager could ask for," Wisson sighed, recalling the countless hours spent implementing password recovery and two-factor authentication. "I’m definitely going to miss its charming interface, the killer design elements, and yes, even the cloud storage. Nothing's more important than seeing your projects leave home fully prepared for what lies ahead."

Wisson reminisced about the early days when his website was just a haphazard collection of 45 lines of code. "It feels like just yesterday it was little more than an unsecured URL and a couple of poorly-formed diagrams," he mused, with a hint of nostalgia. "Back then, I didn't even realize how clueless I was about security—thank goodness for MS Access and shared passwords. Fortunately, Dad had the know-how to upgrade me to micro-tokens and YubiKeys. Now, all that’s left is to share this last special moment with attachment.JPEG, uploading.txt, and downloading_large.flv."

With a wistful smile, Brett pointed out the storage space for SSL certificates and cross-site scripting protection. He laid a gentle hand on his project and said, "It’s done."

At publishing time, the website had already messaged Wisson to let him know it had completed the final leg of its journey and, in conjunction with the company firewall, had arrived safely—fully encrypted and ready to take on the Internet!