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Comment by YmiYugy

21 hours ago

How is it not 2FA? It's MacBook + Fingerprint.

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JasonADrury  21 hours ago

It's not 2fa if you assume some catastrophic exploit chain that allows an attacker to dump your macbooks secure element.

I don't think that's a reasonable assumption for most people, and you're screwed in that situation even if you use yubikeys.

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