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Nothing will change until a large scale/large target hack or until ecology activists can successfully get photos of huge piles of e-waste in front of people. N
by _bfhp 5y ago
Nothing will change until a large scale/large target hack or until ecology activists can successfully get photos of huge piles of e-waste in front of people.
Needing to trash your phone every 5 years is still ridiculously wasteful. Just stop making so many new phones. Regulate it so it's so illegal/expensive that they can't keep doing this. I can't even stop using smartphones if I wanted to, because the people who came up with 2FA decided to make the Authenticator App a mandatory part of modern life, instead of physical security keys like they should have.
- prosody 5y agoIf you didn't already know, the standard OTP schemes used in many systems have desktop and hardware security token implementations. Doesn't help with systems that use non-standard schemes unfortunately.
- _bfhp 5y agoI think the culture the issue... I could be wrong but it seems like a lot of companies ask new employees to use their Authenticator phone app for Google login, VPNs, SSO etc and if you want to use your hardware key you have to seek out a dev-ops person to configure it special for you. The majority of the 2FA settings I've seen for popular platforms (e.g. Twitch) don't let you use keys or you have to dig for it.