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These are the same companies that don't support second factors, only have their app as a second factor, or only SMS second factor. Is it too much to ask for smart card or token (yubikey) support?

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[–] CodingCarpenter@lemm.ee 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Every few months my company forces a password reset. We recently changed from four digit pins to full true passwords but they don't actually explain that so now you have people with like 13 digit pins it's insane. On top of that they also use two-factor Authentication simply to make things harder I believe.

Finally if you want your work email on your phone it forces you to re login every single week and because of the way Outlook mobile works you need this special number from Outlook on your phone so to log into outlook on my phone I have to authenticate with Outlook on my phone

[–] Delphia@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] olicvb@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 months ago

Finally an emergency phone number that i can remember

[–] jaycifer@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

13 digit pins? You mean my phone number and birthdate?

[–] CodingCarpenter@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

I'd be lying if I said I haven't considered it. It's still calls them pins even though it allows for basically any character