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If laptop is stolen you can revoke it, and your password shouldn't be compromised at this point. And hacking through phishing is way more likely in any case (security keys protect against it while regular 2fa doesn't).


Additionally, if somebody removes the token, dumps a bunch of OTPs and then puts it back, as soon as you use the token once, it will invalidate all previous ones so their dump will be reasonably useless. I leave my key in my computer when I'm at my desk but have it attached to my keychain so that I take it with me if I leave my desk.


FYI the nice thing with security keys, is that you can't actually do that (dump a bunch of OTPs to use later).




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