I don't use 2fa. The problem with it is really easy:
i have not bought special pendrive-like keys,and anything other, especially phone gives no real gain about real security.
Phones,especially smartphones are not meant to be secure.Just the opposite - very insecure. Period.
If something is connected to any network (including cell-phone one) it is less secure that thing not connected by definition.
If you cannot verify the software you use and you are not sure of operating system and there are no enough measures to secure it what is really the point ?
Main source of keylogers are computer viruses and exploits. Phones are vulnerable too - maybe even more than computers,and harder to secure.
If your measure of security is 100% related to you and your current location and it is not banking (or EVEN if it IS about banking) then it is so sinister like using your biometric data for authentication - stealing it or using it by any government agency would become disastrous for you.
I miss the days where every website you joined simply required a username and password. No email. No social media. No DID number (why the hell would they link your account to a phone number that can easily change when you buy a new phone?”)
Those were the days. Could easily make your password john1 and never get hacked. And the only person who would ever hack you was family and they would tell people you were gay. Lol.
Maybe, but they gain nothing knowing the first concert I went to, or the name of my best friend as a kid, especially since I'm not on social media, at all.
I don't use 2fa. The problem with it is really easy:
i have not bought special pendrive-like keys,and anything other, especially phone gives no real gain about real security.
Phones,especially smartphones are not meant to be secure.Just the opposite - very insecure. Period.
If something is connected to any network (including cell-phone one) it is less secure that thing not connected by definition.
If you cannot verify the software you use and you are not sure of operating system and there are no enough measures to secure it what is really the point ? Main source of keylogers are computer viruses and exploits. Phones are vulnerable too - maybe even more than computers,and harder to secure.
If your measure of security is 100% related to you and your current location and it is not banking (or EVEN if it IS about banking) then it is so sinister like using your biometric data for authentication - stealing it or using it by any government agency would become disastrous for you.
I miss the days where every website you joined simply required a username and password. No email. No social media. No DID number (why the hell would they link your account to a phone number that can easily change when you buy a new phone?”)
Those were the days. Could easily make your password john1 and never get hacked. And the only person who would ever hack you was family and they would tell people you were gay. Lol.
The article conflates TFA as a whole with the single method of using cell phone numbers as TFA. Agreed that those suck.
Haven't heard anything bad (yet) about TFA that uses third party apps to give you a one-time password.
Maybe, but they gain nothing knowing the first concert I went to, or the name of my best friend as a kid, especially since I'm not on social media, at all.