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Ghana, Pakistan, Iran, North Korea, Russia, all have 2 factor authentication. Why not Nigeria? This is just another example why being Nigerian is kinda hard on the internet.
https://accounts.google.com/b/0/SmsAuthConfig
http://oonwoye.com/2011/01/23/life-as-a-second-class-citizen...
Two-factor auth gets old really fast when you have to use public computers in a setting like a college library. I had turned it on for a while, but turned it off when I had 5 minutes to print out a paper that I had emailed myself (yes, I still do that) and was fiddling with my phone to get the damn PIN. Never again.
How much "fiddling" do you have to do to get your PIN? Unlock code or symbol, select authenticator app, read PIN? On top of loading Gmail and entering your user/pass?
Something Google could to do drastically improve the security of their two-factor authentication system is to add the ability to give more granular permissions with the application-specific passwords. I have an application that only needs to send E-Mail through my GMail account (git-send-email), another that only needs to write to one specific GMail label (Android SMS Backup), and Google Chrome surely doesn't need ac…
I didn't think Chrome any longer required an ASP?
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You don't need to enter your phone number to use Google's two factor. You can use their smartphone application to generate codes. If you don't want to do that, the algorithm is free and open-source so you can probably find an alternate implementation that works fine.
Unless I am mistaken, they won't let you do two-factor auth at all unless you put a phone number first.
I was worried this would be a major pain when I enabled it, but I have to say, it has been much more painless than I thought it would be. Most of the time, I don't even think about it. Most of my consumption of google mail is through clients on my laptops, iPhone, or iPad. So in that sense, it's not much different from a regular password. The difference is that someone else has a much harder time cracking my account.…
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Yeah, that would be great if the damn wireless printing worked in school. Sometimes you just have to log into a public machine.
You couldn't use a USB key instead?
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You pay for incoming SMS? How does that even work?
It is standard to pay for receiving as well as sending SMS in the US. Everybody knows this is insane.
I've been avoiding doing this, and I'm not certain the reason is valid - I don't want Google to have my mobile phone number. Perhaps I'm being overly cautious, but the fact Google already collects such a huge amount of data on me, coupled with the increasing insistent requests to enable two-factor with my mobile phone number, has made me not do it. I got so sick of being pestered about it that I stopped using Gmail a…
Like the second class citizens of the web we are, Nigeria does not have 2 factor authentication. Ghana, Pakistan, Iran, North Korea, Russia, all have 2 factor authentication. Why not Nigeria? This is just another example why being Nigerian is kinda hard on the internet. https://accounts.google.com/b/0/SmsAuthConfig http://oonwoye.com/2011/01/23/life-as-a-second-class-citizen...
Can Nigerians use the Google Authenticator app?
If yes, then the answer is probably high SMS costs.