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Personally, as an Aussie, I don't have any massive gripes with MyGov specifically. Bear in mind that it's mainly (only?) a portal to other departments (ATO, Ce

Personally, as an Aussie, I don't have any massive gripes with MyGov specifically. Bear in mind that it's mainly (only?) a portal to other departments (ATO, Centrelink, Medicare?). I don't actually see why we're bothering to "upgrade" it at all, the mention of not being able to deploy a styling change, who gives a toss honestly, styling is way down my list for something like this. When I had to get a MyGov ID for my son, it did the facial recognition off his passport (no idea if it would have allowed someone else...) fine, set it all up just fine in Covid lockdown so that's a +. My main gripe is that unless you want their crappy app installed, the only MFA option is SMS, which as this audience knows is just not secure.

ahonhn 4y ago
As an Aussie who has lived overseas for decades even the SMS option is not available to me as it requires you to have an Australian phone number. You can't install the myGov Code Generator app without an Australian phone number either. I haven't tried the myGovId app, which seems the best bet, as I'm scared it will fail and block what access I have to myGov now. Also, for a long time the only way to change your myGov email was to set up a new myGov account. Ditto if you had the Code Generator app and lost your phone - though with the myGovId app you now have another avenue for recovery - provided of course that it doesn't crash, accepts your scanned documents and you actually have enough such documents to keep it happy.
- PickledHotdog 4y ago
  Haven't tried this myself, but perhaps it might work overseas? https://github.com/abrasive/mygov-totp-enroll https://github.com/abrasive/mygov-totp-enroll