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And sure, you could also create a new alias and migrate your sign-in preference to dodge the spam, but why should I have to restructure my whole frigging identity just because Microsoft can’t properly gate a push notification behind a password check?
Why indeed.
Happened to me as well and I reacted in exact same way (pulling hair, changing password).
Automated time-capsule emails: Once you finally sort out standard TOTP, Microsoft sends you an automated setup email enthusiastically asking if you need help configuring your Zune, BlackBerry, or Office 2010.
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Everything about authentication and Microsoft is nightmare fuel. I am sure that noone over there has any idea what is going on, and that is the reason why every new thing from microsoft builds their own - soon to be legacy code anyway - authentication portal and ties it to the existing kowloon walled city of authentication with chewing gum and zip ties.
Kowloon Walled City (Chinese: 九龍城寨)[a] was an ungoverned and densely populated de jure Chinese enclave within the boundaries of British Hong Kong. Originally a Chinese military fort, it became an enclave after the New Territories were leased to Britain in 1898. The Walled City's population increased dramatically following World War II, and by 1987 it had an estimated 33,000 residents within its 2.6-hectare (6+1⁄2-acre) borders, making it one of the most densely populated places on Earth at approximately 1.2 million inhabitants per square kilometre (3 million per square mile). The city was demolished between 1993 and 1994; the Kowloon Walled City Park was built in its place and opened in December 1995.
I recently had to install MS authenticator on my work phone, to do so I needed to use the code from MS authenticator. To bypass that I needed to log on to MS to change access option, which wanted the code from MS authenticator to log in.
* Microslop
Micro sloppy penis
My MS account is doing a thing lately where I have to enter the TOTP twice to login successfuly. It has to be two different TOTPs, too, can't enter the same one; I have to literally wait until the first one expires and get another one.
Didn't experience any of the other shenanigans described in the article though, so there's that.
TOTP is time based, I'd check the time on the device just in case. Having to enter multiple codes must be so annoying!
I have the machine synced with NTP and I'm not seeing any time issues.
It's such a super specific quirk, too, that I can't believe it's not on their side.
Maybe they've decided that TOTP is less secure than passkeys and if I refuse to use passkeys with their app I should be "helped" 😃 by using twice the amount of TOTP?
