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> A given website might obnoxiously refuse to trust in my ability to set a secure password, assume the 24-character randomly generated password I keep in my password safe is insecure, and demand I complete an email challenge every time I login

...because it's easier and cheaper to apply one rule for every user and you're an outlier. Most users don't have password safes - they have passwords like 'Messi123' that they use across multiple sites, and therefore benefit from a second factor since their first factor is more or less non-existent.




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