Lemdro.id

1 point

1 year ago

I personally am afraid of this. What if something gets botched? I’ll be permanently locked out of my account!

emptyother@programming.dev

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0 points

1 year ago

I’d prefer me getting permanently locked out over someone who isnt me getting allowed in. Even more so to services which have my credit card number.

But unlikely anyway, as long as I save my pass and 2fa to a password manager, and keep the backup codes backed up.

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jana@leminal.space

8 points

1 year ago

Print off your recovery codes and keep them safe. If you want to be extra, hammer them into metal plates like the crypto weirdos do.

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-6 points

1 year ago

Printing recovery codes would require me to either be price gouged by the printer ink cartel or use someone else’s printer, and using someone else’s printer is begging to get my account stolen.

I have no idea how to hammer things into metal plates, but I’m guessing that’s even more expensive than printer ink.

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ege@beehaw.org

11 points

1 year ago

Just use your pen and paper.

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-2 points

1 year ago

I can do that with alphanumeric codes, yeah, but can I get alphanumeric codes from GitHub, or is it going to be a QR code? I can’t write down a QR code…

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Renegade@infosec.pub

3 points

1 year ago

The recovery codes come as a set of numbers

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faerbit@feddit.de

3 points

1 year ago

QR codes are just an encoding. Just use any half-competent QR code app, and it will give you it’s content, which you can then write down. For the reverse you can use any QR code generator.

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-2 points

1 year ago

How do I feed the generated QR code back to GitHub, then? Can I upload an image of it?

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