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Re:Why I’m Using a Flip Phone by mikkelam on Friday July 27, 2018 @03:02AM (#17624023)
There are lots of ways, how about a Yubikey
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Re:Why I’m Using a Flip Phone by peatmoss on Friday July 27, 2018 @08:24AM (#17625419)
Nothing makes me sadder than 2-factor that supports a phone but not my Yubikey. Yubikey is so much more convenient.

At my last job, I begged IT to turn on the U2F feature of our SSO product. Sadly, they did not, even though it was literally a checkbox in the service’s UI. I even sent them a link to the knowledge-base article.

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Re:Why I’m Using a Flip Phone by onion2k on Friday July 27, 2018 @04:12AM (#17624345)
That'd be a great answer. Sadly, it's not the one people I've met who've abandoned their smartphone go for. They don't use 2FA, or they use SMS where they don't have a choice.

I'm all for people taking control of their life, but having a smartphone can have a material impact on the security of the services you use, and abandoning that in order to stop yourself using Facebook as much is a Bad Idea.

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