Re:The Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Co...
by richardknop on Monday June 26, 2017 @07:24PM
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How do you deal with 2FA?
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Re:The Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Co...
by thesagan on Monday June 26, 2017 @07:30PM
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I have a little widget similar to this hooked on my keychain for AWS: https://safenet.gemalto.com/multi-factor-authentication/auth...
Re:The Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Co...
by richardknop on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @06:47AM
(#14644050)
And for other services? I need 2FA for couple dozen different logins. And not all of them support such hardware devices. Mobile phone is needed.
Re:The Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Co...
by AlexCoventry on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @02:03AM
(#14642875)
Google Authenticator works fine with an offline device, and SMS-based 2FA is insecure.
Re:The Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Co...
by richardknop on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @06:50AM
(#14644079)
Right, but you still need a device. So you can just switch your smartphone into airplane mode and only turn the airplane mode when you want to make a phone call / use wifi.
Re:The Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Co...
by AlexCoventry on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @02:15PM
(#14647798)
You need a device, but you don't need a cellphone plan.
Re:The Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Co...
by ultimoo on Monday June 26, 2017 @07:29PM
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Not OP, but I suppose one could set up SMS based 2FA on a cell phone that is not a smart phone for most major services out there.
Re:The Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Co...
by richardknop on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @06:48AM
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I see. Well, the way I understood it he got rid of mobile phone altogether. So no smartphone, no dumb phone (like old Nokia). That's why I wondered how do you deal with 2FA.