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2FA has screwed me over in multiple instances over the years across different services. Realizing one weekend away that I forgot to do a quiz for a uni course,
by throwntoday 4y ago
2FA has screwed me over in multiple instances over the years across different services.
Realizing one weekend away that I forgot to do a quiz for a uni course, trying to login to the course website on my phone and then remembering my hardware key is at home in my laptop.
Being forced to add a phone number to secure accounts I could not give less of a shit about but have to use for one reason or another, coming back months later to login, and realizing it's an old number and I'm locked out.
Emailing support in those cases and them just removing the phone number or changing it without any additional proof making the 2FA utterly useless.
Or emailing support and them asking me to send some drivers license or ID, then politely telling them to just delete my account because they never had that much info about me anyway.
2FA is a scourge. Just let me worry about my own security, if I care about your service, I won't make my password "asdfghjkl". In 99% of cases, that is fine and I have never had an issue.