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2FA is to mitigate risk after the password is compromised, not to prevent password compromise in the first place.

That doesn't change the necessity of protecting TOTP keys, session keys, bearer tokens, etc., it's just that your second factor is supposed to be a parallel factor, not an extra lock around your password.




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