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Social Engineering is difficult problem with a solution quite simple; make the hardware resistant to replay attacks and don't give the user anything they can le
by zaarn 9y ago
Social Engineering is difficult problem with a solution quite simple; make the hardware resistant to replay attacks and don't give the user anything they can leak.
Password managers don't protect against this. People have given attackers their entire password vault, all you need is a convincing story about some security audit and you needing to review all their passwords. Users believe this.
The solution there is to take away the things a user can leak (passwords) and replace them with things that can only be stolen (tokens). We can train users to never give away their yubikey. Of course some will still fall for social engineering but for a yubikey/equivalent it's fully acceptable to say "never ever never give to anyone, no matter what they say".