When 2FA started years ago I put it on everything that would allow it. It worked great and many security or password apps supported the feature as well. For those services that did not have external applications for 2FA, a text, automated call to your phone number, or an email sent to your email address would suffice.
Subsequently I lost my phone (and phone number!) and was locked out of everything due to most applications/services being tied to either the 2FA app of the device or to the specific telephone number of said lost device and device number.
It was a giant pain in the everywhere as I tried to re-connect to most of my services and apps. As a result I took 2FA off of the majority of applications and services and now use it sparingly with much better passwords only for critical applications and services.
I also have a second phone which has a copy of the authentication app I use, this allows me to lose one of the 2FA devices and still be able to use 2FA on the other phone. I find this works for me, but it means I have to have 2 separate phones. Not so much a big deal as one stays home and the other is my daily phone, it is an unattractive though elegant solution to the problem.
I may get a Yubikey. I need to look into them a bit further, perhaps I can similar to the phone setup keep 1 in a safe or safe location and the other key on my person.
Applications I have used:
Bitwarden
Lastpass
Twilo - Authy
Google Authenticator
Microsoft Authenticator
ToTP - Binarybot
Do you use 2FA? How? Which app do you use, if you can share that information? How is this all working for you?
Subsequently I lost my phone (and phone number!) and was locked out of everything due to most applications/services being tied to either the 2FA app of the device or to the specific telephone number of said lost device and device number.
It was a giant pain in the everywhere as I tried to re-connect to most of my services and apps. As a result I took 2FA off of the majority of applications and services and now use it sparingly with much better passwords only for critical applications and services.
I also have a second phone which has a copy of the authentication app I use, this allows me to lose one of the 2FA devices and still be able to use 2FA on the other phone. I find this works for me, but it means I have to have 2 separate phones. Not so much a big deal as one stays home and the other is my daily phone, it is an unattractive though elegant solution to the problem.
I may get a Yubikey. I need to look into them a bit further, perhaps I can similar to the phone setup keep 1 in a safe or safe location and the other key on my person.
Applications I have used:
Bitwarden
Lastpass
Twilo - Authy
Google Authenticator
Microsoft Authenticator
ToTP - Binarybot
Do you use 2FA? How? Which app do you use, if you can share that information? How is this all working for you?
Statistics: Posted by donald — 2024-02-12 17:33 — Replies 1 — Views 73