microsoft continually pitching logging in via facial recognition as i try to get my tablet working
it's creepy
and the 365 thing is good timing to confirm my suspicion that all these extra hoops i gotta jump through aren't doing shit for security. maybe i'm wrong but i hate it and i want my bias confirmed
been through the windows 11 set up a bunch lately and it's! frustrating! how you have to be online and tell them your microsoft account and stuff
it's a lot of hubbub at the insistence of the entity i don't actually trust. maybe i've just become cranky with programs nowadays (such as insisting on calling them programs instead of apps) as well as devices. but like. i just regularly wish shit would just work without me having to submit blood samples when i want to check my email
also i'm constantly banging this drum but i really dislike how 2fa assumes you have access to a bunch of devices. that just seems like a recipe for disaster. some people don't have phones. some people are in an urgent situation. this seems more concerning to me than someone looking at my amazon history
i dunno. i guess people on here have told me 2fa actually *works*, which i admittedly wouldn't have guessed. i kind of assumed most people breaking into accounts break into a lot of accounts and thus have more involved getarounds that lead to stuff like 2fa only being useful for a short time after implementation
@heatherhorns_lite i still wish more things supported TOTP, which has basically no hardware requirements (you just have to have a $10 TOTP key, or you can use an app on your phone) and is still a secure form of 2fa (there's no account to be hacked into, it's all based on math)
-F
@Felthry @heatherhorns_lite gonna second TOTP, my family has a paid Bitwarden vault for sharing important passwords and that also lets you use bitwarden for TOTPs.
(sidenote – mom was skeptical about password managers for years, then we finally got bitwarden set up for her and she loves it. she mentioned a use case I don't see brought up a lot, which is that it would've been really helpful to have something like this when my grandmother died back in the 2010s? Mom had to go find every sticky note she'd written passwords on, wrangle so many reset emails...)