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Scenarios where someone might have my password but not my SMS: keyloggers, password written down at my desk, video surveillance or shoulder-surfing, audio analysis of keyboard and/or CPU tones[0].

The stronger or less guessable a password is, the more likely it is to be written down or recorded somewhere where it could be compromised.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_cryptanalysis



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