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Re:Multi-factor authentication isn't necessarily strong by rasengan on Friday December 27, 2019 @09:14AM (#21891409)
If the system you are authenticating to is hacked then MFA becomes useless immediately.
Re:Multi-factor authentication isn't necessarily strong by acdha on Friday December 27, 2019 @01:01PM (#21892926)
This is like arguing that a seatbelt is useless because it doesn't help if someone plants a bomb in your car. You have to have a threat model to talk about security: in the case of MFA, it protects against someone getting your password without your knowledge — whether or not the remote site is compromised is outside of that scope. MFA does help in one scenario related to that, however: when someone compromises SiteA and gets your password which you also used on SiteB, they can't use it if SiteB has MFA setup — even if they compromised SiteA's MFA implementation. That's a pretty useful characteristic in an era where breaches are common.
Re:Multi-factor authentication isn't necessarily strong by scient on Friday December 27, 2019 @10:07AM (#21891716)
Whats your point? That its pointless to use 2FA because of it not being a perfect protection for all scenarios?