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Not everyone has a SIM to begin with. Or it is lost with the phone. Anything that has a single or dual point of failure is dead on arrival. Too bad you will re
by tjoff 6y ago
Not everyone has a SIM to begin with. Or it is lost with the phone.
Anything that has a single or dual point of failure is dead on arrival. Too bad you will realize only after you are locked out of all your digital life.
- bawolff 6y agoAuthentication always has a single point of failure: you. If other people could log in as you it would defeat the point
- tjoff 6y agoThat is at least within my control, I can live with that.
- remus 6y agoFor what it's worth, google's MFA setup is the best of any I've used. You can (and should) setup a variety of second factors on your google account so that if one of them fails for some reason you've got other options. Between backup codes, TOTP, pixel phone verification and multiple FIDO keys there's plenty of options. This compares very favourably to, say, AWS where you can only have a single second factor and the recommended(!) way of protecting against loss of a second factor is to have multiple accounts with different second factors registered to each of them.