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by enscr 4484 days ago
If you analyse it as probability it makes a lot more sense than intuitively thinking about it. A login & a password combination can also be seen as a unique string combination and so is 2FA i.e. a 3 string combination. Not really multiple levels of security mathematically.
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With 2FA, the string changes each time you log in.
There's a finite probability of landing on the combination of login+password+2FA-string at any given instance.
Finite and positive ;)