• fucking annoying
  • can’t believe they sold people that it’s BETTER to have to get your phone out to login
  • incredibly annoying
  • if you’re using this willfully you’re clearly just as worried about security as before anyway
  • companies love having real phone numbers to pair with ‘their’ data
  • HubertManne
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    1 year ago

    and smart phones can be hacked. the point of two factor is they have to control both parts.

    • atocci
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      11 year ago

      Right but the point they’re making is it’s a lot easier for a third party to intercept a code that has to be sent to you than it is for them to get the code from an authenticator app since they’re generated on your device. At that point you pretty much need physical access to the phone.

      • HubertManne
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        11 year ago

        im osrry so a hacked device would not show the authenticator code? I really don’t see the difference here. Again its not each bit being so un breachable as much as they would have to have to breach both parts. I really don’t think its taht easy to redirect all the calls that are supposed to go to my phone.

        • atocci
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          11 year ago

          One is much easier to accomplish than the other and doesn’t give the target the same chance to realize something is going on.

          • HubertManne
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            11 year ago

            I don’t think thats necessarily true. If diverting phonecalls were so easy there are a bunch of reasons outside of two factor attacks that it would be used for.

              • HubertManne
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                11 year ago

                you seem to be limiting it to sms. you do realize your talking to a person who mentioned microsofts option to call you and you hit pound. They actually have an app where you input a two digit number and if anything I would have liked them to expand the phone call function with that. Anyway I was not speaking about sms but I still feel the vulnerabilities are overblown when used with a good password.

                  • HubertManne
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                    11 year ago

                    yes microsoft was the one I was complaining about but you can’t redirect phone calls in the same way as sms and sms itself is mostly vulnerable due to legacy things that they could stop using and finally that article was not just 2 factor but bringing in using sms for a password reset which is really insecure but unrelated to 2factor. 2factor will always be safer than non 2 factor because more has to be done than just the one side.