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On 10/7/22 23:30, PaulNM via plug wrote:
On 10/7/22 01:09, Steve Litt via plug wrote:On Thu, 2022年10月06日 at 13:28 -0700, Syeed Ali via plug wrote:The company, your internet provider, government, someone else's government, social credit score.. whatever, could take your work away. I know someone who has been locked out of an account because he changed phone numbers and so two factor authentication won't work.. whoops.I worry about stuff like that. So far I've stayed away from 2 factor authentication.I stayed away from multi-factor for a long, long time because of stupid implementations that required a working phone. Phones die, people! How can I order a new phone if I need a functioning phone to do so? Fortunately that's not the case anymore. I currently use Bitwarden and Authy for password and MFA TOTP management. Both securely allow you to use either or both computers and phones/tablets. There are other options available as well.
Yes! All of that. Plus too much of that stuff is in or heading for "the cloud." That's why I love that KeePass can do it locally, all by itself. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-based_One-time_Password_algorithm * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HOTP (HMAC-based one-time password) * https://keepassxc.org/docs/#faq-security-totp * https://www.linux.org/threads/in-depth-tutorial-how-to-set-up-2fa-totp-with-keepassxc-aegis-and-authy.36577/ * It works in KeePassDX (Android, F-Droid or Play) too, you just have to scroll down past notes Later, JP -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- JP Vossen, CISSP | http://www.jpsdomain.org/ | http://bashcookbook.com/ ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug