Comment by mseebach
12 years ago
Never mind that the Google Authenticator app does get updated, why would it be suspect that it wasn't? Since when did it become a mark of quality that something changes constantly?
It's sole purpose in life is to run a well-defined, never-changing calculation and display a 6 digit number on the screen. Not changing is absolutely preferred here.
It's not confidence-inspiring when an app you use is missing both retina graphics and iPhone 5 support.
I have only used it on iPhone 5 without any problem, so I am not sure what you mean here. I only use it for a few seconds to read the number and do not really understand how retina graphics would help you.
Not updating an extremely simple app with Retina support (which they've had at least three years to implement since the iPhone 4's release) would seem to indicate that it's not under any active development.
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And if a security bug did pop up, I'd sure rather bet on Duo, Authy, etc. fixing their app quickly than Google doing so, given that I don't think anyone is actually on the Authenticator team. I'm sure someone within Google would consider it a high priority to fix, but it wouldn't be as easy for them to quickly address something.
What kind of security bug? The only thing the program should need is a secure place to store the tokens - which I expect is provided by Android, no? - and to read the time from the system. It shouldn't be exposed to anything else.
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