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My rant with that is that the normal, regular user won't configure the fall-back solution. Nobody remembers to write down those numbers-and-codes; when they do,
by woliveirajr 5y ago
My rant with that is that the normal, regular user won't configure the fall-back solution. Nobody remembers to write down those numbers-and-codes; when they do, they don't keep it safe and leave the paper over the desk.
When you travel abroad, is out of battery, break your phone, etc, etc, you're 100% out of your digital life until you can overcome the 2FA limit. And this happens in the moments you need it most.
- MeinBlutIstBlau 5y agoThis is why I like authy because you can use it everywhere on most systems
- beardbound 5y agoI love Authy and used it for a ton of stuff, but some places started not supporting it. I'm looking at you coinbase. For some reason I have three 2FA apps on my phone now. I purposely didn't have 2FA setup on some accounts while I was living abroad because so many SMS based 2FA for sites don't support international numbers.
- MeinBlutIstBlau 5y agoI'm just glad google caved allowing you to use authy. For a while they only allowed you to use their authenticator and I just hated it. I don't care how much integration went in with Android. Authy I can install on linux, windows, mac, android, and IOS. What is there not to love there?
- jqpabc123 5y agoI'm just glad google caved allowing you to use authy. Why do you think they did this? Do you think building Google Analytics into Authy had anything to do with it? Repeat after me --- until proven otherwise, assume everything Google does has privacy invasion built into it. This includes "caving".
- jamesdwilson 5y agoAnd because of Google's autocratic nature with zero support for personal users..this will result in a lot of nightmares.
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