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At some point surely people will realize that forcing the vast majority of people to be either an Apple customer or, worse, a Google product is not a viable des
by nologic01 3y ago
At some point surely people will realize that forcing the vast majority of people to be either an Apple customer or, worse, a Google product is not a viable design?
Current day mobile devices, infested as they are with the dubious morality and regulatory malpractices that engineered the duopoly are horrible as digital identity providers and 2FA.
2FA is a function that is becoming essential for anybody that wants to participate in a digital life. A widely available and easy to use alternative is not a good to have it is absolutely essential.
The implications of how 2FA is implemented go far beyond lovely PyPI. Entities like banks are deprecating specialized hardware in favor of the mobile. This is insane and odious.
- supriyo-biswas 3y agoYou can add TOTPs to a password manager like Keepass.
- arp242 3y agoTOTP is not tied to Google, Apple, or mobile phones in any way. It's an open specification and easy to understand and implement by anyone with even fairly junior skills. Some 2FA systems do require some specialized mobile app, but this is not one of them.
- nologic01 3y agoNot recognising slippery slopes early on is what leads to large scale social regression. As night follows day the next stage of 2FA will be biometrically based and there will be no escape route for "junior developers".
- donaldstufft 3y agoThere is zero chance we require biometrics on PyPI.