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> TOTP is trivially phishable . . . via social engineering

Is it? I've been on the Internet since the 80s and haven't been phished a single time (despite being the recipient of many obvious attempts). Maybe I could be phished, but I think that's evidence it's not trivial.

I have to wonder how many people sophisticated enough to use and pay for a password manager like Bitwarden could be "trivially" phished.



That's great for you, but also a sample size of one (probably technically sophisticated) user, i.e. irrelevant to the bigger picture.

The phishability of TOTP really is exactly as bad as that of passwords, except that a once-phished TOTP isn't reusable by the attacker(s), unlike a phished password.

But even one-time access is often catastrophic, especially if it allows the attacker to rotate credentials.




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