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I know SMS is not 100% secure, but you can easily get SMS recovered if you lose your phone. How do you cover Authenticator if you lose your phone? I always kee
by temp8964 5y ago
I know SMS is not 100% secure, but you can easily get SMS recovered if you lose your phone. How do you cover Authenticator if you lose your phone?
I always keep both.
- discardedrefuse 5y agoMicrosoft Authenticator and Authy both backup to the cloud. I also have a non-Microsoft email linked to receive 2FA codes, as well as 2 hardware security keys, and an account recovery code. I think I'm covered.
- bmitc 5y agoMicrosoft Authenticator is one of the authentication apps that can backup online.
- moepstar 5y agoLike, what could possibly go wrong...
- FabHK 5y agoYou can easily set up Authy, for example, to be multi-device. Then hope that you don’t lose your computer, phone, and tablet simultaneously.
- wsc981 5y agoSome sites give recovery codes that you have to store somewhere and that you should be able to use if you lose access to an Authenticator app.
- GoOnThenDoTell 5y agoSomething about printed recovery codes makes me think of passwords on postit notes
- 3np 5y agoYou can always back up the secret ID on, for example, a piece of paper, if you don’t want to use a TOTP app with sync/backups (there are several, both proprietary and FLOSS)
- beached_whale 5y agoif using normal TOTP apps, print the QR code and store it somehwere secure. It’s a risk, but it’s one part of the puzzle needed and it reduces a more likely risk of being locked out.