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As someone who started using 2fa only yesterday, I was wondering whether it would have been possible for the Australian government to have an app-based token as
by sdiq 11y ago
As someone who started using 2fa only yesterday, I was wondering whether it would have been possible for the Australian government to have an app-based token as an alternative? How is that compared to hassles of text-based tokens when someone if out of the country?
Edit: grammar.
- akerro 11y agoIt doesn't matter if it's a text message or OTA application like FreeOTP. Both require physical access to device you authenticated before. Personally I prefer OTP, just because I don't want to provide my phone number everywhere.
- jacalata 11y agoIt does matter, because the apparent rationale is that they know users change SIM while travelling - so they have access to the device but not to the phone number used for SMS.
- icebraining 11y agoIt could, and they're also safer, since they can't be intercepted like SMSs. There's a question of device support, but considering there are J2ME apps that implement TOTP, it shouldn't be a problem.