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Interesting take! Escalating the information being demanded to recover the account beyond that used to sign up is not something I can really get on board with.
by rpdillon 5y ago
Interesting take! Escalating the information being demanded to recover the account beyond that used to sign up is not something I can really get on board with.
- kragen 5y agoThat's what 2FA means though: once you enable it you need both factors to authenticate, whether or not you had them when you first signed up. I agree that if they required you to switch to 2FA at some point, even though it wasn't required when you signed up, that's abusive. But not being able to log in without your phone or other something-you-have credential is the whole point of 2FA.
- rpdillon 5y agoHow do folks recover when 2FA fails? Edit: nevermind, I'm sure I'm wrong about this, and it's offtopic anyway. Apologies!
- Lev1a 5y ago> How do folks recover when 2FA fails? Reset codes, as in some entities will provide you with a page/image/etc. with ~10 codes on it when you enable 2FA, which can each be used once in place of the code generated by the 2FA token, letting you get into the account to, e.g. set up a new 2FA token/method.