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I think that using a soft token or push notifications are better than nothing, but a company putting a (often known vulnerable) phone at the same level as a sec
by oneplane 8y ago
I think that using a soft token or push notifications are better than nothing, but a company putting a (often known vulnerable) phone at the same level as a security key seems like setting a bad precedent. Then again, at least it's not SMS-verification. Perhaps in future leaks and scrapes of end-user deviced we don't just get data dumps and passwords, but also internal key seeds and tokens...
It's the secure enclave and the purpose-built firmware that makes a security key a security key. I'm sure some specific Android devices have a safe implementation, and I'm sure that some SIM cards and perhaps the recent iPhone Secure Elements have properties that allow them to be safely used as a security key, but putting it forward that phones can be seen and used that way in general lacks that important distinction.