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I hope not. Two-factor auth ties you down to a cellphone (or physical token) while giving you only marginal improvement in real-life usage scenarios. (You are n
by romaniv 14y ago
I hope not. Two-factor auth ties you down to a cellphone (or physical token) while giving you only marginal improvement in real-life usage scenarios. (You are not going to enter a new token every time you check your email or Facebook.) We have higher-level problems with authentication that need to be solved.
- Wingman4l7 14y agoI never said I liked it, I just thought that's where we might be headed. =/ As far as that goes, Google's 2-factor auth mitigates this a bit, with its "keep this auth instance valid for X days" option. (They also have a new "permanently auth this computer by adding it to a trusted list" option, which IMO defeats the point.)