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    7 months ago

    Also most or all of these should require some for of local authentication.

    For example I have 2fa apps on my phone, where I need to use them, so yes, that’s less than ideal. However

    • it protects against remote attacks
    • it protects against SIM attacks
    • and even if someone stole my phone and unlocked it, they’d still need my face id for every use