Who's worse, Google, Nintendo, or everyone else? A mixed rant.
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@topspin said in Who's worse, Google, Nintendo, or everyone else? A mixed rant.:
You have your WTDWTF access codes
printed on paperengraved in platinum-iridium plates in your bank safe?If it's worth overdoing, it's worth really overdoing. After all, paper and ink can be lost to fire, water, or just fade away.
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@HardwareGeek Platinum-iridium sounds too valuable. Basalt slabs are known to have good durability and aren't particularly valuable.
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I store my recovery codes in the private AWS S3 bucket where my general “backups” live since that does not currently want MFA…
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@Arantor I push mine to a public GitHub repo. Oh wait ...
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@topspin my bucket’s private, just like my GitHub repos.
And my GH repos can be read by way of SSH keys without needing that MFA.
That’s how you outwit them and play that sweet 4 dimensional chess by using their very own tools to outsmart them.
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@Rhywden said in Who's worse, Google, Nintendo, or everyone else? A mixed rant.:
If you cannot type a mere two numbers correctly on a device then you have larger problems.
I do. I'm dyslexic. (So entering numbers is slow because I double/triple check. Even then I often flip 2 numbers but read them back as what I expected)
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@dkf said in Who's worse, Google, Nintendo, or everyone else? A mixed rant.:
@HardwareGeek Platinum-iridium sounds too valuable. Basalt slabs are known to have good durability and aren't particularly valuable.
Probably a higher melting point too!
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@dcon said in Who's worse, Google, Nintendo, or everyone else? A mixed rant.:
Even then I often flip 2 numbers but read them back as what I expected
My native language is German so I have the same problem
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@ixvedeusi said in Who's worse, Google, Nintendo, or everyone else? A mixed rant.:
sufficiently low values of 'German'"
You mean Dutch?
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@dkf Sufficiently low, not ridiculously low.
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@ixvedeusi Chuchichäschtli?
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@topspin Dä Papscht hät s Schpiesspschteck z schpot pschtellt.
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@ixvedeusi thank you for the headache.
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While we’re on the subject of GitHub and access tokens…
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@topspin said in Who's worse, Google, Nintendo, or everyone else? A mixed rant.:
@Rhywden said in Who's worse, Google, Nintendo, or everyone else? A mixed rant.:
Everyone should have backups in a secure location by default.
You have your WTDWTF access codes printed on paper in your bank safe?
I have my password manager stored in several places (phone, computer, dropbox, some other detachable drives) and the passphrase to unlock it sealed in two envelopes in my fire safe. If I had a safety deposit box I might keep it in there, too. Though my main reason for this is in case I die or something and my family needs access to it (wife's uncle passed and the family couldn't unlock his password manager which led to lots of problems).
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For any released app, if you want to update a build to the default branch, Steam will text you a confirmation code.
No TOTP-style approach, of course.
Q: I don’t have a phone. What should I do?
A: Sorry, but you’ll need a phone or some way to get text messages if you need to add users or set the default branch for a released app.I don’t even need to upload the image. The joke makes itself.
Addendum: apparently this is in response to a recent kerfuffle where a grand total of <100 users had games installed where the developers’ accounts were compromised and malware inserted into the builds.
Bonus:
I ended up just deleting the Github account I haven’t touched in years rather than fuss with whatever cumbersome authentication they’d be satisfied with or dealing with whatever the implications of a ‘restricted’ account are.
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@kazitor said in Who's worse, Google, Nintendo, or everyone else? A mixed rant.:
I ended up just deleting the Github account I haven’t touched in years rather than fuss with whatever cumbersome authentication they’d be satisfied with or dealing with whatever the implications of a ‘restricted’ account are.
I've got an authenticator for Github set up. It's mildly annoying, but not too terrible. It generates a code every so often (1 minute?) and I have to type that into one of the pages in the Github auth flow. Since I had to have the authencator app anyway for work, it isn't onerous to have the second account in it.
At least Github doesn't sign you out frequently.
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