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[–] Godort@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Some friends and I were talking about the feasibility of that earlier today.

It's possible, assuming that you never need to use your phone as an MFA method, never need to scan a QR code, or never need to use an app for something because they lack a web version.

[–] paequ2@lemmy.today 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

My company recently required us to have mandatory fun at a baseball stadium. Apparently, Ballpark MLB is the only way to receive tickets and get into the park... I had to sign up for some stupid account and download some stupid app because my company required it.

[–] Godort@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 week ago

The future is stupid.

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.org 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] paequ2@lemmy.today 16 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I could have technically said no... but I would have taken a hit politically. I've definitely been on teams where people have said "Oh, paequ2 doesn't like us. He doesn't want to hang out with us." I mean, they're not wrong. I don't like people. But. You know. I still need people to review my PRs, approve them, ask them for help, ask them for pay bumps, etc.

Forgive me Lemmy for my moment of weakness. I'll go off to the corner and practice some self flatulation.

[–] j4k3@piefed.world 5 points 1 week ago

rsync arch three times; $ man bash > /tmp/forgiven

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

You're going to go.. fart on yourself?

[–] thoughtfuldragon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Self flatulation is so unironically funny in this context. I think you meant flagellation but really people are giving you more guff than you deserve over the situation. And your response was basically "well I'll go fart by myself about it." And like yeah, that's about what all this is worth.

[–] paequ2@lemmy.today 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I think you meant flagellation

I said what I said! I didn't typo. 🏃 💨

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago

Not judging you, it's a balance. I play this game as well! Godspeed

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

I read all this in Lenny's voice because of your pfp and it made it even better

[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If my employer wants me to use MFA, they can provide me the device.

[–] dan@upvote.au 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is exactly what a Yubikey is for. They're phishing-resistant too, as opposed to TOTP codes.

[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I have tried to make the case for Yubikeys a hundred times. It's officially not in the budget.

[–] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 2 points 1 week ago

What a shame, they will lose much more to hacks

[–] Godort@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How about for any personal accounts?

[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My personal accounts do not use MFA of any kind and very few are tied to external accounts for any form of verification.

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Lucky you can get away with that. My bank requires the app, without it you can't even make transactions via the web UI because the 2FA is via their app. You can't even order a new card or many times order a physical card via their web UI because they don't bother sending you a physical thing anymore, intention being is that you add the card to Google pay for NFC and online payments and use it that way only. Everything is via the app. I actually have no idea what happens if I lose my phone, because as far as it has been made to appear my bank account is on my phone, there are no sign in details or anything of the sort, it's either there or it isn't.

[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If my bank ever changes to do that, I would immediately find a different bank. Then again, whenever it's possible, I do business in cash.

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah good luck with that, most places have been cashless since the pandemic, and there are no banks that don't do this, they're required to have 2FA by regulatory compliance and they all implement it as apps to offset compliance costs with data harvesting.

[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I've not had that experience. Most of the places I go to or do business with prefer cash (most even charge for cards now), and my bank doesn't do that stuff. If they do, I'll just go to an FCU instead of a bank, since most of them do most of their business in-person.

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That's because we live in different countries. Judging by you saying FCU, presumably meaning Fan Control Unit or United States Federal Credit Union, you live in the United States.

I do not live in the United States. In the rest of the world, and especially Western Europe and the UK - where I live - cashless is very common if not the default.

Again, outside of the United States (1 country), banks tend to work like how I described, so there isn't a bank that "doesn't do that stuff", and not only are most business cashless, there are even fairly common card payment machines at businesses that do not take chip and pin (or swipe, but they basically never did that, that's just an American thing), only contactless is an option.

Then I would have some real issues living outside the USA. I believe in using cash, and I probably wouldn't keep a bank account if I had to go through all that nonsense.

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

never need to scan a QR code

QR wishes it can someday become as relevant as you're giving it credit for. Haha.

There is Aegis for MFA. It's much nicer than the closed proprietary ones.

Of course, if a job requires something incompatible, then I'll let them buy me a dedicated device.

Some services threaten me with "there's no web version", but they never end up being someome I want to do any business with, anyway. ¯(°_o)/¯

But I do want a dumb flip phone again. They were cool.

This has come full circle because at my work, we refuse to buy hardware keys for employees because of the cost. Work is making them download Duo authenticator as the only means of MFA as well.