Re:Gmail 2FA causes the homeless to permanently lose access ...
by virtualritz on Friday October 07, 2022 @09:39AM
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> How do you use Authy if you lose all of your possessions every few months?
TLDR; Authy is like a password manager for 2FA tokens.
You set a master password in Authy and enable cloud backup.
When you loose your phone you can e.g. use Authy desktop and retrieve all 2FA tokens from the cloud with that password and just use that until you have a new phone.
This didn't occur to me until August when I smashed my phone screen on a concert and needed to give someone access to a private repo on GH the next day. It works flawlessly.
TLDR; Authy is like a password manager for 2FA tokens.
You set a master password in Authy and enable cloud backup.
When you loose your phone you can e.g. use Authy desktop and retrieve all 2FA tokens from the cloud with that password and just use that until you have a new phone.
This didn't occur to me until August when I smashed my phone screen on a concert and needed to give someone access to a private repo on GH the next day. It works flawlessly.