Re:South Dakota first to ban TikTok on state-owned devices
by ketzo on Friday December 02, 2022 @04:35PM
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Sorry, their official MFA policy was "just go find a random one"? How would that even work? Do they have a contract with every MFA service?
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Re:South Dakota first to ban TikTok on state-owned devices
by nthn_g on Friday December 02, 2022 @04:48PM
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I would presume a random TOTP app. Incredibly stupid policy nonetheless.
Re:South Dakota first to ban TikTok on state-owned devices
by technion on Friday December 02, 2022 @04:48PM
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Yes that was the official policy. I was in such disbelief I made her show me the official guide she was given. Of course im sure they had no contracts anywhere, it looked like someone simply said "google will sell your data" and someone senior bought it and banned one app.
Re:South Dakota first to ban TikTok on state-owned devices
by cesarb on Friday December 02, 2022 @04:54PM
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> How would that even work?
TOTP is a standard (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6238), so I don't see how that wouldn't work.
Re:South Dakota first to ban TikTok on state-owned devices
by wyldfire on Saturday December 03, 2022 @01:48AM
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It wouldn't work if the app implementing TOTP decided to share the seeds you stored in it.
Re:South Dakota first to ban TikTok on state-owned devices
by DocTomoe on Saturday December 03, 2022 @02:07AM
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Let's just assume that not ALL government agencies employ rocket scientists.
Re:South Dakota first to ban TikTok on state-owned devices
by ThePowerOfFuet on Saturday December 03, 2022 @04:17AM
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> Sorry, their official MFA policy was "just go find a random one"? How would that even work? Do they have a contract with every MFA service?
TOTP is a standard, so anyone can implement it.