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I hate 2FA Hell (hexbear.net)

submitted 21 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Installed Steam on a new computer. Signed in. It sent a passcode to my GMail. I signed into GMail. It wanted me to 2FA because I hadn't signed into Google on that device. It sent a notification to my phone, which I never received. I had it resend the notification twice, still nothing. Tried again with my phone's offline passcodes. Neither worked. Tried the QR code/Bluetooth connection, and that finally did it.

At least I got through in the end, but fuck, it's annoying.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Security theater is an overstatement. If your password manager has a data breach (which happened a couple years ago with LastPass) then 2FA offers an extra layer of protection. E.g. if hackers get your email password, and it’s short enough to be decrypted, then 2FA would save you. Of course a longer password makes 2FA less necessary, but redundancy doesn’t really hurt anything

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

which happened a couple years ago with LastPass

That's the thing, I use KeepassXC which is a local-only libre password manager. So someone would need physical access to my machine in order to copy the encrypted password database file. I'm the only one responsible for syncing the file across my devices.

Why someone would trust a proprietary always-online password manager that requires personal information and probably has ties to the Zionist entity is beyond me.