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Re:Ken Thompson's Unix Password by mywittyname on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @01:42PM (#21205704)
If I had a key logger on your system, I'd just try;

    9A4jc@23
Bam. Access granted.
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Re:Ken Thompson's Unix Password by saagarjha on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @02:12PM (#21206111)
If you had a keylogger, it wouldn't really matter how good your authentication scheme is…
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Re:Ken Thompson's Unix Password by FroshKiller on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @07:54PM (#21209473)
Keyloggers aren’t very useful when authentication uses TOTPs from a hardware token.
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Re:Ken Thompson's Unix Password by chupasaurus on Thursday October 10, 2019 @03:01AM (#21211710)
TOTPs from a hardware tokens aren't very useful if system doesn't support TOTP as an auth backend.
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