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by londons_explore 2765 days ago
TOTP is far too easily phishable. User studies have shown that in any large organisation, some small percentage of even the most technical staff will enter an OTP into a phishing page. You might think 'I'm not that dumb', but study after study shows you are!

The future is hardware U2F tokens. They can securely check the web-origin of a request and only give the token to the correct origin.

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Depends on your threat model, not everyone is going to pay for a hardware U2F . Not every application needs that high security. TOTP is an option definitely better than just plain password, which is what most services use today