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by CrendKing 661 days ago
"Blame" 2FA for your own mistakes just sends bad message. How do people who are capable of setting up 2FA (therefore not tech-illiterate) still don't use password manager? Imagine storing either the 2FA secret or the backup code in it.
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2FA apps are a fundamentally broken auth mechanism. We just saw Microsoft's authenticator app inexplicably delete people's codes and lock them out of their accounts. And this is another example of how stupid the whole thing is.

It's all for theater.

You're speaking nonsense. If you use a bad app, that's on you. There are plenty of 2FA apps that work just fine.
> There are plenty of 2FA apps that work just fine.

Is one of them Microsoft Authenticator?

> Is one of them Microsoft Authenticator?

Hell no.