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Re:On Cybersecurity and Being Targeted by throwanem on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @11:52AM (#12262647)
That's a LastPass bug; if your 2FA can be disabled with nothing more than an email challenge-response, your second factor is just email.

For comparison, when I had trouble with Linode's 2FA - I set up a new phone and wiped the old one before realizing that Google Authenticator doesn't include TOTP secrets in iPhone backups, in effect destroying my 2FA token - and my scratch codes failed to work, I had to provide government ID matching my account information before their support department would disable 2FA on the account. I'm not overjoyed by the fact that an implementation error prevented my scratch codes from working, but I was pleased by the nature of the verification required to disable 2FA so I could log in again and re-enable it. Linode may have had some security problems in the last few years, but this at least they got exactly right.

Re:On Cybersecurity and Being Targeted by bigiain on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @10:54PM (#12266072)
Keep in mind too that this argument chains - if your 2FA can be disabled with access to your phone/SMS, and your phone account can be updated with an email challenge response (or just a confident voice-call to your carrier's customer service), it's just one extra level of hoop-jumping for your attacker.