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Where would you buy one? I'd love to have one myself.
by ZeroManArmy 9y ago
Where would you buy one? I'd love to have one myself.
- skibble 9y agoYubiKeys are supposed to be great. I don't have one myself — been mulling it over, but not sure if I need one since I have an authenticatior app on my phone. If anyone thinks I should though I'm all ears!
- wruza 9y agoIf 2fa through SMS, then maybe any dumbphone is okay? Google 1st: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/150153/is-a-dumbphone-mobile-more-secure-for-basic-phone-calls-than-a-smartphone https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/150153/is-a-dum...
- pmiller2 9y agoSMS itself isn't all that secure.
- JadeNB 9y ago> SMS itself isn't all that secure. But isn't the point of 2FA that it's OK to have each of the factors individually be (relatively) insecure—passwords being about as insecure as imagineable for most users—as long as no-one is likely to have access to both of them? Thus, it's OK if someone can read your texts, as long as they don't also know your passwords.
- abecedarius 9y agoHackers have stolen large amounts of cryptocurrencies from individual targets because they used SMS 2FA. (If probably more money than I've ever had counts as large.) You might not be as juicy a target, but if you're reading HN I guess you're at least mildly interesting these days, this being the cyberpunk future.