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Comment by simonw

It's because OTP is trivially phishable: setup a fake login form that asks the user for their username and password, then forwards those on to the real system and triggers the OTP request, then requests THAT of the user and forwards their response.

Passkeys fix that.

parent simonw 1 year ago

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