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Comment by SpaethCo

This is technically true, but the most likely scenarios that result in the discovery of your secret key (128bits of entropy) + master password (?? additional bits) involve things like a device compromise. If your machine is compromised, you’re probably already exposed to things like session cookie stealing. At that point your attack surface is already blown wide open.

The biggest thing 2FA protects against is credential stuffing. If you’re using a password manager and have high entropy site-unique passwords, the additional entropy by TOTP is mostly moot anyway.

parent SpaethCo 6 years ago

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