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Your comment would be more impactful if it explained clearly what the problem is. What does it mean to upconvert a security token? In fact, what’s a security to
by sillysaurusx 3y ago
Your comment would be more impactful if it explained clearly what the problem is. What does it mean to upconvert a security token? In fact, what’s a security token?
(I ask mainly so that I can watch out for whatever bit you. On the face of it, the blog post seems pretty anodyne. The screenshot shows that it’s optional, not forced, since there’s a "not now" button.)
EDIT: oh, they auto converted your security keys to passkeys? With no option to roll back? Yeah, that’s not great. https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6103523?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6103523?hl=en&co=...
- k8svet 3y agoI'm sorry, I'm not laughing at you, I'm laughing at the premise of Google acknowledging this, let alone fixing it properly enough to have a "rollback". As far as I call tell, my physical yubikeys that went though this process have continued working with the same ultimate user experience, thank God. Minus the 45 minutes where I thought I was locking myself out due to them disappearing from the ending landing page that listed my enrolled Security Tokens, due to the buggy upgrade UX flow or the fact that I have no way of confirming which of my primary/secondary tokens are now actually enrolled because it trashed my descriptions during this upgrade. I am actually infinitely sorry at the times I openly questioned user error when people expressed Kafka-esque nightmares wrt to google auth. I'm actually quite annoyed at myself for ever doubting them.
- rzzzt 3y ago"Not forced" would mean the dialog has a "Nope", "Not" or "Nuh uh" button instead of "Not now" and permanently goes away when clicked, never to return.