I use Google Authenticator. I keep meaning to use Authy but keep forgetting.
I too had a couple of accounts that I got locked out of when I switched phones and forgot to transfer over my 2FA to the new phone. One, NextCloud, I never used and so they eventually just canceled the account. The other, a patient portal, I somehow got back into by some kind of fluke. I canceled the 2FA on that one.
Now I don't use 2FA unless they have some kind of backup procedure such as using my home phone or giving me one-time codes I can print out or keep on my computer. Something separate from my cell phone. So it works fine under those conditions. I've used the backups a couple of times upon getting a new phone and they work fine.
I intend to go to Authy because they will back up your codes in the cloud so I won't have the problem of forgetting to transfer them over to a new phone.
I use Bitwarden for my passwords so I won't use it for my 2FA codes because then you have a single point of failure. If Bitwarden is compromised then the bad guys get both your passwords and 2FA codes.
I too had a couple of accounts that I got locked out of when I switched phones and forgot to transfer over my 2FA to the new phone. One, NextCloud, I never used and so they eventually just canceled the account. The other, a patient portal, I somehow got back into by some kind of fluke. I canceled the 2FA on that one.
Now I don't use 2FA unless they have some kind of backup procedure such as using my home phone or giving me one-time codes I can print out or keep on my computer. Something separate from my cell phone. So it works fine under those conditions. I've used the backups a couple of times upon getting a new phone and they work fine.
I intend to go to Authy because they will back up your codes in the cloud so I won't have the problem of forgetting to transfer them over to a new phone.
I use Bitwarden for my passwords so I won't use it for my 2FA codes because then you have a single point of failure. If Bitwarden is compromised then the bad guys get both your passwords and 2FA codes.
Statistics: Posted by Shamak — 2024-02-23 22:55