Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

GitHub now requiring 2FA for all contributors,what authenticator apps you using?

news.ycombinator.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

11–20 of 42 posts

Re: GitHub now requiring 2FA for all contributors,what authenticator apps you using?

#13

Post by bjourne »

Microsoft showing 2FA down everyone's throat is quite painful. I don't for a second believe they are only using my phone number for authentication. They are storing the data and they are correlating it with other apps they force 2FA on.

Re: GitHub now requiring 2FA for all contributors,what authenticator apps you using?

#14

Post by stephenr »

bjourne wrote: post #13

Microsoft showing 2FA down everyone's throat is quite painful. I don't for a second believe they are only using my phone number for authentication. They are storing the data and they are correlating it with other apps they force 2FA on.

So don't give them your phone number.

Arguing against 2FA is like arguing that they shouldn't bash your password because it means you can't see your password to help remember it.

Re: GitHub now requiring 2FA for all contributors,what authenticator apps you using?

#20

Post by nextos »

jjgreen wrote: post #3

That's been pending for a while, I'll just stop contributing code.

You don't need an app if you don't want one.

In a CLI, oath lets you calculate a TOTP.

But it's maybe a bit more insecure if you use the same machine.

Post reply on HN