• argv_minus_one ( argv_minus_one@beehaw.org ) Banned
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      3 years ago

      That’s why you always use discipline in handling security credentials. Two factors won’t save you if your lack of discipline gets both of them compromised.

      And I don’t appreciate other people’s lack of discipline creating risks for me. Password databases and private keys can be backed up, but if I lose my phone for some reason, I also lose anything that depended on that phone for authentication, and I have no way to recover quickly from such an event.

      • It’s okay, they added in an additional verification mechanism where they give you a shape and you have to click through a bunch of images until you find one that has the exact number of those shapes that it told you to find, only to realize after you clicked submit that one of the shapes was actually ALSO that original shape you were told to find, it was just rotated in a weird way, so you get it wrong and have to do it again. These are smart people making good technology.