I listened to an interesting Steve Gibson podcast on this same subject and tend to agree with Steve that this is a decent implementation of a stronger single factor authentication mechanism, but it is far from multi-factor authentication. This can certainly replace weak passwords with a slightly stronger authentication mechanism, but it most instances, real security will require a second, truly secret authentication factor.
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