Comment by vel0city
25 days ago
The least annoying and most reliable form of 2FA I use is tapping the touch sensor, doing a biometric face unlock, or typing in my PIN on the device I currently have in my hands. Its miles less annoying and way more reliable.
Glad that works well for you. Does not work well for me. I do not care for laptops except when necessary and have come to loathe my phone. Everything important is done with desktop computers that do not have cameras or touch sensors, so biometrics can't work.
In general, I do not have a "device currently in my hands" and having to pick one up and unlock it is annoying.
> I do not care for laptops except when necessary and have come to loathe my phone.
Good news then, this also works on desktops, even ones without cameras or touch sensors. That's a part of why I mentioned "typing in my PIN". But sure, keep moving goalposts. Maybe next you'll tell me real computers don't have numbers on the keyboards or something.
> In general, I do not have a "device currently in my hands" and having to pick one up and unlock it is annoying.
I agree, which is why SMS sucks so much for 2FA. Having to have my phone with me with signal just to auth into something sure is annoying, I don't know why anyone would prefer that compared to just using the authenticator physically inside their computer.
"Good news then, this also works on desktops, even ones without cameras or touch sensors."
All of the 2FA methods forced on me by my employer and most online services that require it require a phone app. So no, it doesn't work on a desktop.
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