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I think it’s more fundamental than this. They do not want their education to be conditional on having MSFT software on their phone, or handing over personally identifiable data like their phone number to a big tech corp.

But the students were further aggravated by the incompetence of the university. There’s a bit in the articles and emails about how easy it was to hack into their infrastructure despite 2FA efforts. Together, these things (and some of the published emails) seem to show the university is stubborn and incompetent. Which is where students and VGTU seem to clash as well.

The university staff should have just enabled TOTP, or at least offered some reason to believe they generally knew what it was. Given the university claims to be specialised in tech, it is a reasonable expectation. Instead, their technical staff demonstrated a front line tech support level understanding.

It seems like those are the fundamental problems the students are surfacing.