On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 11:25 AM Alex Gaynor <agay...@mozilla.com> wrote:

> one overriding concern: phishing, particularly moderately-sophisticated
> phishing which can handle forms of 2FA such as TOTP, SMS, or push, is a
> scourge.


TOTP was never much defense against phishing, just password compromise
(shoulder surfing, site breaches). In the late 90's AOL support techs were
regularly phished for their RSA-fob tokens by people trying to get into
AOLs systems. WebAuthn is solving a very real and very old problem.

 -Dan Veditz
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