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Originally Posted by gmw
Two factor authentication is definitely worth having for anything that's important to you. The PITA then becomes (this is a vent and rant thread after all) that you have to make sure you know how to recover if your phone dies or is lost. I'm using Authy for those places that support it, which has reduced the number of places I have keep track of recovery codes for, but there are still some sites that use different systems.
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Yeah, no kidding. I'm not a big smartphone user. Where I reside, we didn't have smartphone service readily or easily available, for about 10 years, from 2008-2018. I never developed the umbilical-cord-phone-addiction that seems to now cover the globe.
I was LIVID when Amazon insisted that I had to use 2FA, which meant I had to run outside, about 100 feet, from my house, in 117F temps, to get their magic "code" to prove I was me, and then run BACK in and enter it, in the 2-minute allotted timeframe.
Not everybody has, or even wants, goddamned smartphones. I could pretty cheerfully go the rest of my life without one, as long as I had a way to contact emergency services in case of a breakdown, etc.
(Don't get me started about the toxins that I think that the combination of social-media+smartphones has spread world-wide. Speaking of the Technology V&R!)
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