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A confirmation phrase and a poison pill phrase, don't overcomplicate it. This can be generated, shared and changed easily and with no tech.

My 76 old Dad loves checking the TOTP on his phone and asking me to verbally read it out when I need him to accept a 2FA push notification to let me log into his bank or government accounts so I can do something for him.

He says it “feels like 007 stuff.” “AI will never trick me!”

We also have a duress code word, listed in the notes of that KeePass(ium) entry with the TOTP.

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