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I personally am fine with this.

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[–] aplomBomb@midwest.social 118 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Yep, should be standard everywhere

..... for accounts you actually give a shit about

[–] spez_@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago

And not via SMS

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 30 points 1 year ago (19 children)

And not the twitch way, where you have to have in an identifier, your phone number, but using proper, standards ways for it, like TOTP and such

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[–] mtchristo@lemm.ee 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

emphasis on the

… for accounts you actually give a shit about

[–] doink@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago (3 children)

While you are adding this anyway consider using an open source app instead of google auth like aegis. There are many others but I wish I knew about them sooner.

[–] dyc3@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I personally love keeweb. Passwords and 2fa all in one place.

I mean you could argue that defeats the purpose of having 2fa, but it's convenient

[–] technojamin@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It weakens it a bit, but in my opinion it still has strength where it counts. If an attacker gets access to your password outside your password manager (man-in-the-middle, keylogger, phishing), then you’re still protected. Maybe it’s hubris in my own ability to keep my password manager safe, but I’ve never been worried about storing MFA in my password manager.

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[–] jackalope@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] gamey@feddit.rocks 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good, people are fucking stupid and if it effects others it's often better to choose the security for them!

[–] nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yup. I'm actually a bit baffled by how much negativity/misinformation there's around 2FA even in a place like this, which should naturally have a more technically inclined userbase.

[–] daYMAN007@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago

Well negativity is there because every app wants it.

I don't care if account x is compronised, as it has absolutly no value

[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

I dislike MFA because it creates a risk of losing access to my account. I can back up my passwords; I can't back up a hardware device.

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[–] Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

2fa should be mandatory everywhere

[–] faerbit@feddit.de 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hard disagree. I do not want to have 2FA for every shittly little thing I do not care about.

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[–] Mio@feddit.nu 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
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