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It's super useful for a few sites I visit frequently who require 2FA but I don't need that security. But yeah, otherwise it's a pretty remarkably bad idea.
by jfrunyon 5y ago
It's super useful for a few sites I visit frequently who require 2FA but I don't need that security. But yeah, otherwise it's a pretty remarkably bad idea.
- scrollaway 5y agoWhen you sign in to a website from your phone using a saved password and use that same phone for 2fa, it's pretty much the same thing. The whole meme that saving the 2fa seed to password managers is a bad idea needs to die. Most of the advantages of 2fa are still present when using a password manager.
- jfrunyon 5y agoIt's the other way around. Literally all of the advantages of using 2FA are not present when you store both factors together.
- scrollaway 5y agoYou are wrong. The primary advantage of 2fa is the OTP part, which wards against keyloggers and password reuse.
- jfrunyon 5y agoUnless of course the keylogger also has access to the OTP. If your device is compromised, your device is compromised. It doesn't matter what the advantages of 2FA are. You don't have 2FA ("two-factor authentication") if your factors are stored together.