Comment by VeninVidiaVicii
16 hours ago
Every time I leave my phone in the other room to “finally get some work done”, please enter this goddamn number we sent to your SMS, and I close my laptop.
16 hours ago
Every time I leave my phone in the other room to “finally get some work done”, please enter this goddamn number we sent to your SMS, and I close my laptop.
The most obnoxious aspect of that: I specifically have my texts accessible on my laptop, but some 2fa authentication texts get blocked via that mechanism in favor of a message saying "look at this message on your phone".
Gets worse. A lot of accounts were set up by my boss so it's all his 2FA. Then some of these require the phone to scan a QR-Code. We work remotely.
That drives me crazy. The RBC app does this although it eventually times out and gives me the number.
The worst part is: why are they sending me an SMS when I never agreed to it and didn’t configured that as an MFA option?
My work uses “okta verify” for everything which is very helpful, as I can sue my work PC as a trusted device or fall back to a yubikey if not. 100x better than random SMS
I used to solve this with the Authy desktop app, now discontinued. I firmly believe MFA shouldn’t live in your password manager (what’s the point of MFA, then?). Thoughts on MFA options?