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If stealing a cookie is all you needed then FIDO isn't relevant to the picture at all.


You were mentioning an attacker trying to steal a touch from the FIDO device using malware. My point was that's pointless because cookie theft is easier and gives the attacker the same thing.


If the attacker wants a cookie, then stealing a cookie gets them the cookie, but it is not necessarily the case that the attacker only wants a cookie.

Nothing compels Twitter to design their user administration tool so that it says "Oh you have a cookie well then it's fine for you to change Elon Musk's email address and switch off his 2FA".

For example it's perfectly easy to have a "Confirm" step for a privileged operation that requires WebAuthn authentication. But if you're the attacker that means a cookie doesn't help you.




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