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Good idea! That had never occurred to me before this incident.
by gravitronic 4y ago
Good idea! That had never occurred to me before this incident.
- ClassyJacket 4y agoYou have to take a photo of the screen on another phone, Google disallows you from screenshotting them.
- msdrigg 4y agoJust use a different 3rd party authenticator app
- yieldcrv 4y agoReally? At what point do we blame the victim because this is so obvious to me. I keep the TOTP and only sometimes keep the backup codes I avoid the issue created from losing my phone, because the next device can generate codes immediately by importing or scanning the TOTP I also don’t call it “2 factor” I just call it “one time passcode”
- happytoexplain 4y agoNothing is "obvious" in tech any more, because there is simply too much. Two "tech savvy" people will often each have things they think is "obvious" that the other isn't familiar with. And this isn't even a good example of something that is "obvious" to some people, because Google makes it very, very clear that saving the QR code is NOT a backup option. It is labeled only as a mechanism to transfer to a new phone, so one has no reason to believe that it's non-ethereal. Further, the app disallows taking a screenshot. You have to point a camera at your phone. It's mind-blowing to suggest that it might be appropriate to blame the user for not doing this.
- yieldcrv 4y agoall TOTP is the same it doesn't matter what Google says is normal is this really people's only experience with TOTP delivered via QR codes?