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I love password based login (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by bdjegifjdvw@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

If you can get at a password by hacking a website, I wouldn't be holding out hope that they couldn't then steal the TOTP secret.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 hours ago

I mean yes everything is hackable. Thankfully the hardware key supports FIDO where there is a public / private pair with private locked on the hardware. Not enough services support this though.

So threat is being targeted and having somebody steal the hardware key.