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2FA is nice unless you lose your cell phone or it gets stolen. If you ever lose your job or go homeless and can't afford a cell phone then you are locked out of
by orionblastar 11y ago
2FA is nice unless you lose your cell phone or it gets stolen. If you ever lose your job or go homeless and can't afford a cell phone then you are locked out of your accounts.
I am disabled and struggling if I miss payments I go homeless or can't pay my bills and things get shut off. For me 2FA might not work if I am down on my luck.
- dsmithatx 11y agoThere are ways around this for some things but, probably not with services like Facebook. For example with Amazon I use 2FA with a cellphone. As a backup I use a hardware token and an Admin account. If my cellphone gets stolen I pull the 2FA card out of my wallet.
- orionblastar 11y agoProvided that nobody steals your wallet and you don't lose that card.
- Pharaoh2 11y agoIn that case you use the backup codes that you had printed and put in a safe a register a new 2FA token.
- noobie 11y agoWhen setting up Google Authenticator for One Time Passcodes, you are also given a seed which can be used to resteup the app from another device.
- orionblastar 11y agoProvided you don't lose that seed. If I end up homeless will lose all my stuff and limited to library access. You have to plan for the worst case scenarios with 2FA when things go bad.
- noobie 11y agoWell at a certain point getting locked out stops being 2FA's fault and is simply due to the user's lack of responsibility.
- ladzoppelin 11y agoAuthy is really good. https://www.authy.com/ https://www.authy.com/ They need a Firefox extension but its allowed me to do 2FA on my personal and work accounts without fear of being totally locked out if I loose my phone.
- ladzoppelin 11y agoAuthy is really good. https://www.authy.com/ https://www.authy.com/ They need a Firefox extension but its allowed me to do 2FA on my personal and work accounts without fear of being totally locked out if I loose my phone.
- TACIXAT 11y agoI recently bought the cheapest phone I could find for 2FA. 10$ phone and 20$ minutes. It equated for 400 texts with a time limit of 3 months. I didn't do too much research but there are probably some that don't expire. So, if you ever find yourself in a tough spot, 30$ can get you access. If you ever can't afford 30$, get in touch and I'll send you a phone.