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Another mechanism for secondary authentication (instead of email) is the use of a 2FA key stored on a physical device like a YubiKey. Not all services support this type of 2FA mechanism so it may not have helped your friend in his particular case. But what I do for all websites where it is enabled is store a 2FA identifier on a hardware device (which I carry with me on my key chain) as well as stored in a password manager that I can access on my phone or any web browser. FYI, I use Bitwarden as my password manager after switching from Lastpass a couple of years ago as LastPass is known to have had some serious security breaches in the past. Thus I store Passkeys for each website on a physical device, Bitwarden and also stored in Google, and therefore have multiple ways to prove my identity
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