I personally am fine with this.

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Passkeys supported?

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What’s the difference between a passkey and a security key?

Edit: ohh, it’s passwordless. I won’t do this for my Google account. Github: maybe. but not Google

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While you are adding this anyway consider using an open source app instead of google auth like aegis. There are many others but I wish I knew about them sooner.

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Just moved my github MFA to aegis.

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Bitwarden is also good.

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You probably shouldn’t be storing your passwords and 2FA in the same place.

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Bitwarden crew checking in. The best thing about bitwarden is the 10$/year to have a pro account. It gives you, amongst other things the ability to store up to 1tb of attachments and reports on various risk assessments.

You can even host your own instance.

I recommend it.

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I personally love keeweb. Passwords and 2fa all in one place.

I mean you could argue that defeats the purpose of having 2fa, but it’s convenient

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It weakens it a bit, but in my opinion it still has strength where it counts. If an attacker gets access to your password outside your password manager (man-in-the-middle, keylogger, phishing), then you’re still protected. Maybe it’s hubris in my own ability to keep my password manager safe, but I’ve never been worried about storing MFA in my password manager.

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

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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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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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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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Just use your pen and paper.

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2fa should be mandatory everywhere

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Hard disagree. I do not want to have 2FA for every shittly little thing I do not care about.

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Yeah. GitHub makes sense because most users are writing code that can be executed by others. That makes GitHub accounts security critical.

But a Lemmy account? Naw, you lose almost nothing if that gets compromised. A little bit of history and subscriptions, mostly.

I’m in a discord that for some reason “requires” 2FA. Based on searching, I think they give everyone some kinda admin role or something? It doesn’t actually require 2FA, but it shows a very annoying warning that covers up a bunch of the channel selection screen. But despite that, I don’t really wanna deal with the hassle of 2FA on a chat app that’s basically consequence free for me if it gets exploited.

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Specifically app-based 2FA, ideally Google Authenticator based. There are tons of great authenticator apps available that are all compatible, so it should absolutely be preferred over SMS or email.

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It’s not the problem it’s trying to solve

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