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My wife worked for the government. When they deployed wfh, they used mfa. They banned Google authenticator out of the view Google can't be trusted. But told pe
by technion 4y ago
My wife worked for the government.
When they deployed wfh, they used mfa. They banned Google authenticator out of the view Google can't be trusted. But told people to search the app store for any other mfa app. They one my wife found makes you wait for an ad run before it displays the code. It sometimes crashes and is generally terrible.
The point being banning certain apps seems far more political than well thought out.
- userbinator 4y agoI find it very sad that the government isn't even capable of writing its own presumably TOTP authenticator app.
- ketzo 4y agoSorry, their official MFA policy was "just go find a random one"? How would that even work? Do they have a contract with every MFA service?
- ThePowerOfFuet 4y ago> Sorry, their official MFA policy was "just go find a random one"? How would that even work? Do they have a contract with every MFA service? TOTP is a standard, so anyone can implement it. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6238 https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6238
- nthn_g 4y agoI would presume a random TOTP app. Incredibly stupid policy nonetheless.
- technion 4y agoYes that was the official policy. I was in such disbelief I made her show me the official guide she was given. Of course im sure they had no contracts anywhere, it looked like someone simply said "google will sell your data" and someone senior bought it and banned one app.
- cesarb 4y ago> How would that even work? TOTP is a standard (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6238 https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6238), so I don't see how that wouldn't work.
- vlunkr 4y agoAuthy is good, or freeotp if you want to go full FOSS.
- nano9 4y agoDuo Mobile on iOS lets you save and restore your TOTP tokens across iPhone backups with a symmetric passphrase. It provides some peace of mind in the event you would lose your phone.
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