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James O'Gorman
@jogbert
24 Jul 2017
GitHub made a software U2F. I don't get it.
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Daniel Silverstone ๐๐๐๐ยฒ ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ฌ๐ง
@dsilverstone
24 Jul 2017
To use instead of google authenticator?
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James O'Gorman
@jogbert
24 Jul 2017
I don't get the point of having a second factor on the same device as your first factor.
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Daniel Silverstone ๐๐๐๐ยฒ ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ฌ๐ง
@dsilverstone
24 Jul 2017
Surely your first factor is in your head?
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James O'Gorman
@jogbert
24 Jul 2017
No, it's in my password manager because why would I only have one password? :-)
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Daniel Silverstone ๐๐๐๐ยฒ ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ฌ๐ง
@dsilverstone
24 Jul 2017
Replying to
@jogbert
Heh, true enough.
Jul 24, 2017 ยท 8:55 PM UTC
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James O'Gorman
@jogbert
24 Jul 2017
Replying to
@dsilverstone
And thus, my password manager is on my laptop and my second factor is my Yubikey or my phone. Authy Desktop is widely criticised, for e.g.
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Daniel Silverstone ๐๐๐๐ยฒ ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ฌ๐ง
@dsilverstone
24 Jul 2017
Yeah, I have my second factor as my phone or yubikey Been meaning to switch password manager to something better though. What do you use?
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