How can I tell you… I enjoy it as much as having to brush my teeth after each meal or emptying the dishwasher..
do I wish I didn’t have to use it at all? YES
can I do without it at the moment? Unfortunately NO because for some reason our lives are governed by the ever-present but really, really small risk that someone might want to hack my work email..
At the time, I searched and searched and could not find any #FOSS solutions to achieve what I figure most everyone who must use #MFA / #2FA needs, namely:
A Linux desktop version
An Android version (F-Droid or .APK - not from the Google playstore
A Windows desktop version
Does anyone have suggestions as to how to achieve this, so that it syncs between all of your devices?
There are plenty (even FOSS versions) out there, but none of them that I know of that sync between all of your devices. If you lose your phone... oh well! But with Twillio you could just install it on a new phone and it would sync over all of your accounts from one of your other devices, laptop, whatev. I know it's proprietary, and that's a bad thing, but like I said, I couldn't find a single FOSS solution that had this very basic functionality of syncing between all of your devices.
Do you know of an authenticator that syncs between all of your devices? Feel free to boost and ask around, people shouldn't have to carry a phone around with them everywhere, let alone use a phone for your multi-factor authentication when your working on your desktop, and using your desktop/laptop to authenticate/signon to your accounts. That's just ridiculous.
#2FA: I’m using the Google Authenticator app but I’d like to replace it. Which 2FA app should I give a try instead? I’d much prefer something open source.
Mandating 2FA is a good idea, and I have been using #TOTP wherever possible for a while now.
I dislike the idea of installing a proprietary MS app on my phone to do push notification and god knows what else. Are they any drop-in alternatives out there?
Korzystacie z Authy? Ja mam teraz bałagan, część usług w Google Authenticator, część w Microsoftowym... Myślałem o tym, by przenieść wszystko w jedno miejsce. Chyba, że macie sprawdzoną alternatywę open source?
Brilliant. uOttawa and Carleton both now require login #authenticator to use #outlook on my phone but you can't have both logins on the same phone. So now I can only access one email or the other.
Imho a decision that doesn't make sense, Google already has paid for all the infrastructure so running the service to them is pure profit, not to mention the lost possibility to upsell Google workspace (paid gmail with a custom domain) or Google cloud services to all their customers....
Google's added passkeys as a way to get into your Google Accounts. But... what's a passkey? Here's my explainer covering how they work and how they differ from passwords:
Privacy friendly authenticator ?
Hi, would you know a privacy friendly authenticator ? I already have 2FAS which seems recommended for data privacy.
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Imho a decision that doesn't make sense, Google already has paid for all the infrastructure so running the service to them is pure profit, not to mention the lost possibility to upsell Google workspace (paid gmail with a custom domain) or Google cloud services to all their customers....