Re: [webauthn] Why not email/username as user.id / user handle? (#1763)

Actually, when calling `credentials.get` with an empty `allowCredentials` list, it shows to me the list of users with `name` and `displayName` but without id/handle! At least, that is how it is on my system:

<img width="333" alt="image" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/5452653/177599545-b915fa42-2260-45d4-9e49-59298cc89ef7.png">

After all, listing a bunch of cryptic user id/handles would be quite useless. In such a case, the user would not be able to identify which one to pick.

So, to conclude:

- current browser implementations **do** expose private information like name/displayName
- the user id/handle is not shown (nor do I know any way to access it)

...so I'm kind of puzzled that there are privacy issues for an internal id that's never shown while name/displayName are easely listed without requiring user verification.

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