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Solution in search of a problem or just plain advertising? I rather see banks use some sensible authentication standard (perhaps, not necessarily, 2FA; likely,
by guenthert 5y ago
Solution in search of a problem or just plain advertising? I rather see banks use some sensible authentication standard (perhaps, not necessarily, 2FA; likely, but preferably not using passwords), then a random for-profit company's product. Yubikeys are first and foremost baffling expensive.
- RockRobotRock 5y agoYou think YubiKey needs to advertise on a message board for paranoid tech nerds? nobody just found out about yubikey from this thread...
- rolandog 5y ago> a message board for paranoid tech nerds? Ah, this explains why I feel at home in this community.
- aaaaaaaaata 5y agoDon't worry, you're not paranoid, you're just not missing relevant knowledge, or a mouthbreather.
- aaaaaaaaata 5y agoPS consider dropping Keybase
- rolandog 4y agoThanks for the advice! Had forgotten to remove it from here.
- CodeWriter23 5y ago$8-$50 is "baffling expensive"? I think if it protects a few grand in the bank, well worth it. If you don't have a few grand in the bank, I think maybe yeah any non-free 2FA solution becomes "expensive".
- sd37489sdf 5y agoPlease follow the guidelines for commenting and assume good faith: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html In particular, 2FA is not a standard but rather a collection of techniques, some of them standards. Yubikeys implement a good number of them. When someone asks a question like this one, I take it to mean "Bank with WebAuthn support", which is in fact a standard, and I'd also like to know if one exists that also lets you selectively disable other weaker factors.
- guenthert 5y agoI'm aware that 2FA is not a standard. I meant to write "a standard perhaps, not necessarily using 2FA", but I fumbled the editing. My bad. And no, here I cannot assume good faith, sorry.