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Email OTP That Is Not Security Theatre
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Security28 April 2026 · 6 min read

Email OTP That Is Not Security Theatre

One-time codes are easy to add and easy to get wrong. Six digits with no rate limit, no expiry, and a leaky error message is worse than no second factor at all.

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