re: #23 Charles Johnson

Here’s a good video on setting up 2-factor authentication with Google Authenticator. (All the apps work in very similar ways.)

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re: #63 Axolotl

There was no explanation in that video. What a terrible video. How does it work? Do I have to be logged into the device? What if I lose the device? Wtf?

re: #79 JC1

I’m actually partial to Microsoft’s authenticator. As long as you know your password for your Google/Microsoft account, and have secondary authentication in the form of email or phone number, you can log in from a new device.

I use Microsoft’s authenticator because my company uses it for 2FA and Blizzard and Steam have their own authenticators, but, for everything else, I use Authy, which is cross-platform (mobile and desktop) and, if you set it up right with an encrypted password, it saves your sites/apps in case you uninstall the app or get a new phone.

authy.com