Yes you can have proper security. But this is about the Microsoft solution where you don’t, where you can first guess the password and then guess the 2fa code. Which is not very smart, considering it’s not that much harder to check both at the same time and fail when either is wrong.
They can switch to display the right one when you enter your email address, they already do this. And of course indeed it doesn’t work with methods like sms and emailing codes, both of which are not secure anyway.
> They can switch to display the right one when you enter your email address, they already do this
So the effect here is this gives bad guys a free targeting feature. Just type in any email addresses and Microsoft will tell you which 2FA is enabled if any.
> And of course indeed it doesn’t work with methods like sms and emailing codes
So, it doesn't help at all for the good case, and it breaks the bad case worse, what was the goal again?
WebAuthn is the good case, which is the case you didn't break since it doesn't care about any of this. And you made the bad cases worse. So good news I guess, "At least Microsoft aren't as bad at this as tinus_hn".
Yes you can have proper security. But this is about the Microsoft solution where you don’t, where you can first guess the password and then guess the 2fa code. Which is not very smart, considering it’s not that much harder to check both at the same time and fail when either is wrong.