Google Authenticator gets cloud backup support
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- Anonymous
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- 28 Apr 2023
johnsmith.msj, 25 Apr 2023What is your plan for loss or hardware failure? If you requ... moreIf Hardware fails, use backup codes; Buy a new Yubikey or setup 2FA using an app temporarily.
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- ravi4ever
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- 27 Apr 2023
invitation to hackers to steal Crypto from you..
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- Eyvi
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- 26 Apr 2023
Excellent. Now I don't have to take the time to mail my tokens to the NSA.
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- 26 Apr 2023
Kykyblaze, 26 Apr 2023After 6 years Google introduce a backup feature. I dumped G... moreSame. MS Auth is way nicer.
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- GlueGlue
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- 26 Apr 2023
When you export the accounts to another device, it duplicates everything. I have to clean them up myself. What good is an update if it doesn't make it better? Let's see what's next...
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- Anonymous
- IWP
- 26 Apr 2023
For some reason i can use GA on 2 different phones haha
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- Kykyblaze
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- 26 Apr 2023
After 6 years Google introduce a backup feature. I dumped Google for Microsoft.
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- 25 Apr 2023
Anonymous, 25 Apr 2023This arguably makes you less secure, because now anyone who... moreWhat is your plan for loss or hardware failure? If you require a yubikey and it breaks, then what?
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- Anonymous
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- 25 Apr 2023
Bigmeme, 25 Apr 2023Then what's the point of 2fa? Wouldn't hackers ga... moreYep backing up your keys in the cloud unencrypted is not secure, but sadly majority of users don't really care about security just boast about it
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- 25 Apr 2023
Anonymous, 25 Apr 2023This arguably makes you less secure, because now anyone who... moreThen again as user, losing your own codes also screws you pretty badly. Storing recovery codes safely somewhere is also difficult task. There is no easy way to do it. Securing Google account well is one way of keeping things safe, but people usually don't do good job with that.
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- Bigmeme
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- 25 Apr 2023
Then what's the point of 2fa? Wouldn't hackers gain access to my codes if they get my google account? 🤔
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- Anonymous
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- 25 Apr 2023
This arguably makes you less secure, because now anyone who breaks into your Google account can get the 2FA keys to the kingdom (even SMS, far inferior it may be, would be better against this attack vector since a hacker would have to also perform a SIM swap attack). I maintain that a hardware 2FA device like a Yubikey is the only truly secure 2FA solution.
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- 25 Apr 2023
oha, 25 Apr 2023Hi, everyone.. by this opportunity I wanna ask everyone if ... moreWithout root it's not possible unless specific OEMs allow such features in their stock ROM UIs.
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- 25 Apr 2023
Hi, everyone.. by this opportunity I wanna ask everyone if there is any smartphone backup utility for android phones that can take the whole image backup of an android phone ? Im not familiar with phone stuff sorry.. I guess there isnt any that can do this.. but I am not sure so I wanted to try a chance to find out here.. : ) thnx
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- Anonymous
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- 25 Apr 2023
I stopped using Google Authenticator because of the lack of back up functionality. Didn't want to use synced authenticators (like Authy) because to me they seem like a single point of failure, so instead looked for open source authenticators and after testing many I chose NinjAuth which can create encrypted zip files for backups.
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- Jbro
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- 25 Apr 2023
More....secure? By uploading your keys to the web? Sounds like marketing to me
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- Yuri84
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- 25 Apr 2023
I've checked it and I don't have this update yet. Is that a region-limited feature or a slow rollout or something?
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- deewinc
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- 25 Apr 2023
I stopped using Google Authenticator and switched to Authy due to a lack of backups. Using Authy for three years now across multiple devices, and I'm happy.