The cognitive overhead of installing an authenticator app (and then worrying about what happens when you lose your phone) is absolutely ridiculous. The overall experience is just stunningly bad, given that it’s one of the best defenses we have.
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The cognitive overhead of installing an authenticator app (and then worrying about what happens when you lose your phone) is absolutely ridiculous. The overall experience is just stunningly bad, given that it’s one of the best defenses we have. 3 comments
@matthew_d_green It also *should* be an open standard with libraries freely available in all platforms, and *should* be platform- and vendor-independent. |
Free one-time code authenticators *should* be built into every phone. They *should* be enabled on the default keyboard. They *should* be securely backed up to an end-to-end encrypted account. If Google/Apple did this, adoption would be high.