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by 8n4vidtmkvmk 7 days ago
I thought the same for a long time but now i don't know. If your computer is compromised, they can exfiltrate your password, but with a hardware key they can't, so i think that's legitimately more secure than password+otp. It still needs a pin though to protect against device theft. I bring this up because there's been a ton of compromised developer packages recently and windows itself is being attacked so even if you're pretty good about protecting yourself, you still might get screwed.
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If your computer is compromised, the attacker can just as easily read your email.

OTP can be used with a password.

Uh huh? That's why I specifically said hardware key. Like a Yubikey. You can't digitally steal that.
That doesn't address anything. If your device is compromised they do not need your hardware key because they can just read all mails on device or steal login/session cookies for accounts and bypass authentication.

Passkey is still inferior to U2F + password anyways.