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Re:Flaw has Microsoft Authenticator overwriting MFA accounts... by lazide on Sunday August 18, 2024 @11:57AM (#41283122)
Ah, yet another standard. How many years do you think before it’s obsolete?

Also, the ‘no previously leaked passwords’ are gonna piss off a lot of customers.

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Re:Flaw has Microsoft Authenticator overwriting MFA accounts... by smrq on Sunday August 18, 2024 @12:18PM (#41283250)
I think you just picked up the goalposts and brought them home with you. Why ask for a standard in the first place?
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Re:Flaw has Microsoft Authenticator overwriting MFA accounts... by lazide on Sunday August 18, 2024 @12:35PM (#41283358)
Because this is what, the third NIST standard on it?
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Re:Flaw has Microsoft Authenticator overwriting MFA accounts... by a_dabbler on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @05:47AM (#41298445)
Things can change? The newer standards improve upon the errors of the old ones and presumably make the old ones deprecated
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