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Nowadays the password managers can store the 2fa secrets and generate the codes as needed. It kind of defeats the purpose of the second factor -- the password
by vetinari 5y ago
Nowadays the password managers can store the 2fa secrets and generate the codes as needed.
It kind of defeats the purpose of the second factor -- the password manager becomes it -- but at least it makes the services that insist on it happy.
- marcosdumay 5y agoNowadays 2FA are always about something you know and somebody that vouches for you (SMS, email, whatever). Nobody seems to do any version of it that relies on you alone. So a password manager won't improve its reliability.