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It makes plenty of sense to Google: engineer for the 98% use case and the remaining 2% should just go away and stop wasting their time.
by crooked-v 4y ago
It makes plenty of sense to Google: engineer for the 98% use case and the remaining 2% should just go away and stop wasting their time.
- stubish 4y ago100% of devices will fail, eventually. It is kicking the can down the road.
- NaturalPhallacy 4y agoHey it worked for the UNIX epoch, till those guys retired.
- TeMPOraL 4y agoThey're banking on you upgrading your device before it dies, as opposed to e.g. accidentally dropping it onto pavement and cracking the screen. Had that happen to me, I was saved by still having the backup codes + having some unholy Tasker + Pebble automations that let me operate the phone without display - enough to launch AirDroid, use it as remote display/input to enable ADB over WiFi, and then finally use scrscpy over ADB as a remote display/input that doesn't blank out on security screens and in Google Authenticator. Only at this point I was able to transfer all the other TOTP entries in Authenticator to the new device. Lesson learned: 2FA with TOTP is a responsibility to be taken seriously, despite what security professionals would make you believe.
- cozzyd 4y agoEnable debugging on your phone preemptively, then you can remote display over USB :).
- aledalgrande 4y agoDoesn't matter, if the current people can get promoted. Problem is for future Googlers </sarcasm>
- nicbou 4y agoMany things are designed by roughly the same kind of people in roughly the same area. They are blind to a lot of use cases. Besides, it's a government's mandate to cover edge cases. Businesses only do it when compelled.