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This is Gamma, the third-born, when he was about 18MO.
Two-Factor Authentication
Jun
28
2023
A number of sites and services are switching to 2-factor authentication, rather than just a simple username and password. So you’d login, but then have to enter a code sent to you by email or text before it will finish the login.
So far many of the places I use have that as an option, not mandatory. And I don’t opt in, but for a lot of the places I end up having to do the same steps anyway.
The reason: I forget passwords.
Here’s a typical login scenario from me. I enter my username and password, the site rejects it. I then enter my username and another password, and the site rejects it. At this point, I don’t want to enter a third bad password, in case they’re strict with their lockout protocol, so I select the forgot password link.
The site then sends me a reset link, I follow that and select a new password (usually the first password I tried), and then I’m good.
It’s about the same steps as standard 2-factor stuff, but in an unofficial manner.
then they would say to him, “Just say, ‘Shibboleth.'” But he said, “Sibboleth,” for he was not prepared to pronounce it correctly. Then they seized him and slaughtered him at the crossing places of the Jordan. So at that time forty-two thousand from Ephraim fell.
Judges 12:6
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