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> And god forbid you enable 2FA, you'll have to get your phone out twice a day. How onerous, a security mechanism you actively turned on actually requiring you
by vacri 10y ago
> And god forbid you enable 2FA, you'll have to get your phone out twice a day.
How onerous, a security mechanism you actively turned on actually requiring you to do something. My car is just as bad - I drove it at a wall, and the front bit crumpled up!
And if you're getting your phone out twice a day, then perhaps your work hours are a bit crazy (12 hours+) and the problem is less to do with AWS than your workplace?
- scrollaway 10y agoMy Google account is far more secure than my AWS account, but it can actually remember device-based 2FA for a month. Yes, how onerous, Google accounts are LITERALLY like a crashing car. And as someone who works at home, I work whenever the hell I want, get off my back and go troll elsewhere.
- killbrad 10y agoFar more secure how?
- rev_bird 10y ago>it can actually remember device-based 2FA for a month Call me crazy, but that seems like a totally different feature than what AWS two-factor auth is doing. AWS uses 2FA to validate users, while Google uses it to validate devices, and you're making it seem like Amazon is too dumb to use local storage for something. (Also, I don't think the parent commenter was comparing Google to a car crash. The analogy was that it seems weird to get mad about features performing their stated actions.)
- lobster_johnson 10y ago2FA that is long lived and only protects the device does not sound as secure for something this critical.
- vacri 10y agoWow. My apologies, I didn't realise your personal self-worth was so wrapped up in your google account. I wasn't even referencing google with the car thing, but the AWS mechanism doing what it's been activated to do. If you're that sensitive about lighthearted hyperbole, then perhaps you shouldn't use it in the first place.
- MustardTiger 10y agoI work 12 hours apart in one day all the time. I work an average of 16 hours a week, from home. Stick to the actual discussion rather than trying to invent nonsense reasons to dismiss people's opinions.
- vacri 10y agoMy apologies. I didn't realise that you found it so difficult to take out your phone. I find it comes quite naturally to me - I was unaware that there were professional developers out there that struggled with it.
- sctb 10y agoPlease comment civilly and substantively here or not at all.
- rizalp 10y ago> My apologies. I didn't realise that you found it so difficult to take out your phone. I find it comes quite naturally to me - I was unaware that there were professional developers out there that struggled with it.