#multi factor authentication

[dalniente]

I understand the necessity of multi-factor authentication, but as someone with ADHD so bad I was diagnosed at age 7 in the 1990s despite me being a girl at the time...asking me to pick my Distraction Box back up when I've finally managed to put it down to try and get to work is, uh, not the best thing ever for my ability to get work done. You are requiring Captain Distractosaurus to pick up and look at his Distraction Box in order to do his work. This is the worst possible thing you could ask me to do. Picking up and looking at my Distraction Box and entering a code and waiting for the code to be accepted is so many steps, and in between each one of those steps is an opportunity to get distracted, and I am holding and looking at my Distraction Box for every single one of those steps.

Guess what I was doing when I got distracted and made this post. You'll NEVER guess. Multi-factor authentication is very necessary and I hate it SO MUCH. I'm gonna eat a bug

[fly-the-pattern]

[greencheekconure27]

I fucking hate multifactor authentication.Not only am i now obliged to have a smartphone nearby at all times when working, which is distracting,but now the damn thing broke and i can neither login nor register a new device under my account because the link will be sent to my smartphone...which is broken.Fucking useless.

also is it just me or is tying access to basic services to a single fairly fragile device in our age of planned obsolescence fucking stupid?

all i want is to check my schedule and where i need to be on Monday.

[chromosomesxx]

I had a Twitter account. Twitter got X’d and a couple years later my account got X’d too. It was actually surprising. I didn’t have many followers, maybe 30, and followed academics and researchers especially related to statistics, public health, and indigenous well-being.

Last year I started having trouble signing in with the multi-factor authentication and then after not even attempting to sign in for months I got an email this past April that my account was suspended. I didn’t have a chance to remember what I posted on there and all the cool research resources that I found.

I shared some educated opinions and feelings about the state of current affairs. But it doesn’t make sense that anything I posted would cause this. Does this happen often now to X users? Could it because people hacked into it?

[the-villains-guide]

Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) explained:

An MFA access card requires you to steal the guard’s card and guess (or torture out) his PIN.

An optical scanner seems fancy, but only requires you to obtain the guard’s head.

[heatheniousmaterials]

Since it requires you to both Have a thing (the keys) & Know a thing (the order to move the switches), this safe technically uses Multi Factor Authentication

Antique safe made in France around ~1780 / 1810. With three keys and a combination of ordered switches

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Securing Your Online Presence The Essential Guide to Multi-Factor Authentication In an increasingly connected world, securing our online activities has never been more important. Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), and its subset Two-Factor Authentication (2FA), stand out as essential tools in the fight against cyber threats. This essential guide delves into the intricacies of MFA, offering a…

[dalniente]

Someone in the reblogs mentioned "work mode," which my phone doesn't have. but it turns out my phone DOES have a "focus mode" I can schedule. So I have been trying focus mode! And it...helps. Unfortunately the amount it helps is not much, because it (reasonably) has "pause app for 5 minutes" and "take a break" functions. So focus mode does make it slightly harder to get distracted, because it gives me a little "oh, right," moment where I can put the damn thing down...but I am on first-name terms with the guy who can tell it to take a break, and he has the willpower of a paramecium and can be bribed very easily with dopamines from the Distraction Box.

A solution that is built into my Distraction Box is a deeply imperfect solution for me personally. I do not want a Distraction Box-based solution. What I really need is to be able to leave my Distraction Box in my fucking car outside so I can't get into it with my squishy little paramecium hands.

You know what would help me? You know what would be the best? Is if Microsoft started making little dongles that generate codes. You know, the way banks used to do before their executives started fellating The Cloud. Give me a dongle I can hang on my keyring! They can make them different colors! Sell cute or classy little cases for them! We could collect them like business Tamagotchi; look, this one is wearing a tie! Why are they ignoring this fantastic marketing opportunity. A couple people in the notes have mentioned security jump drives as an alternative...I know these exist, but they require me to ask for help from my boss. I am trying to avoid doing that. I would like a business Tamagotchi instead please. I know "ADHD paramecium begs for another thing to keep track of" kind of goes against logic, but if it's on my keys, it can only get lost as often as I lose my keys, which I've gotten quite good at not doing.

Until then, this is an improvement, so I shall do my best to gloop along in focus mode. But I sigh. I don't like this brain, I want a new one.

I understand the necessity of multi-factor authentication, but as someone with ADHD so bad I was diagnosed at age 7 in the 1990s despite me being a girl at the time...asking me to pick my Distraction Box back up when I've finally managed to put it down to try and get to work is, uh, not the best thing ever for my ability to get work done. You are requiring Captain Distractosaurus to pick up and look at his Distraction Box in order to do his work. This is the worst possible thing you could ask me to do. Picking up and looking at my Distraction Box and entering a code and waiting for the code to be accepted is so many steps, and in between each one of those steps is an opportunity to get distracted, and I am holding and looking at my Distraction Box for every single one of those steps.

Guess what I was doing when I got distracted and made this post. You'll NEVER guess. Multi-factor authentication is very necessary and I hate it SO MUCH. I'm gonna eat a bug

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[simarcana]

My discord account was hacked for 2 solid seconds and i got banned from 5+ servers for "sending" the fucking steam sale scam

[chromalogue]

I got scammed through Booking.com

...and I'm posting this so maybe someone else sees it and doesn't fall for it.

On Sunday, the app Booking.com, which I have installed on my phone, sent me a message saying that an upcoming reservation I have in Frankfurt was in danger of being cancelled. Due to a high number of fake bookings they were going to need some verification within the next twelve hours. So I clicked their link, ensured that it was a secure link from Booking.com, and re-entered my credit card info.

The page where I entered it said the verification process should take about five minutes. After an hour with nothing, I e-mailed the hotel directly and said that I was running into some technical difficulties with Booking.com, but I did very much want the room still, even if the booking service ended up trying to cancel my reservation.

I got a reply - to the e-mail I'd sent the hotel directly - through Booking.com. They said there was a misunderstanding with the staff and my card had been rejected, but there was a link that would clear it up. And it was the same darned link as before, but I'm used to having to jump through a billion hoops for multi-factor authentication now, so this time I asked my mom if I could use her card to reserve and pay for the room, and I'd just transfer her the money. And she gave me her info. And I gave it to them.

Then I got a message saying this card had been accepted, and I was going to get an SMS with a code, and I should enter the code to complete the process. Except no SMS was forthcoming, not to me or to Mom, and then I looked at the spelling on that last message and thought, you know, I know I'm reserving a hotel where English is a second language, through a company where English is a second language, but maybe I'm just gonna check…

So I searched "Booking.com scam?" and found this Guardian article, which describes pretty much exactly what happened to me. This has been happening for at least a month, and Booking.com denies that it's been hacked. But that's where the messages were coming from, they had my reservation details, and they knew when and what I had written to the hotel I had the reservation with. If I had seen something like this article - heck, if Booking.com itself had sent out a warning - I would have known something was up from the beginning, but as it was, they were slick enough that I got taken.

I've had to cancel my credit card, and my mom has had to cancel hers, but fortunately we got them both before the scammers could run up any charges. And I guess until I hear something has changed, I'm gonna have to book my hotels directly.

[seniordba]

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