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by sascha_sl 2168 days ago
All people still somewhat understand is federated identity, and that's becoming less prevalent.

Though a weird set of coincidences I often get support tickets about people using or enrolling in TOTP escalated to me. These people have never used an authenticator, except for the company-mandated Microsoft authenticator. Not only do they simplify the concept thinking there's just one code for everything (e.g. microsoft token are used for AWS, don't worry these people only have access to some S3 stuff) they also extrapolate that because Microsoft sends them a push notifications, AWS must too, and they didn't get one, so it's obviously broken.

Email is slowly losing this awareness too. The only remaining analogy that's probably not going away is getting your credit card from a bank while they still work on the same network.