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> how do you deal with the seeming need for a phone with secure chip for the endless banking and two factor apps? I've been without a smartphone for about two
by zephyr9 5y ago
> how do you deal with the seeming need for a phone with secure chip for the endless banking and two factor apps?
I've been without a smartphone for about two years now and would not go back (although sometimes tempted by the false promise that a shiny new product will bring happiness).
It's easy, you just don't treat your phone as secure, do banking on a computer, along with email.
2FA is not magic, it's just another password. Just a password manager like pass [0] can generate 2FA codes, but it's easy enough to do with oathtool [1] that I wrote my own password manager.
[0] https://www.passwordstore.org https://www.passwordstore.org
[1] https://www.nongnu.org/oath-toolkit/ https://www.nongnu.org/oath-toolkit/
- mvdwoord 5y agoMy current employer (long term contract work) and many other company policies simply require e.g. ms authenticator... Can't find any alternative to that. Is there a way to use company issued ms 2fa without a mobile phone (Android/iOS)?
- blacksmith_tb 5y agoIt certainly seems clunky, but you could potentially use something like Bluestacks as a pseudo phone and install Authenticator under it. That wouldn't work for push though (like Duo).