cyberferret

6 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

This thread makes me miss the old Posterous service. I used to enjoy emailing shot blog posts, and only having a few friends of mine knowing what my blog address was. It was a form of journalling that I enjoyed until they inexplicably shut the service down.

cyberferret

8 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

Oddly, this news struck me harder than other recent deaths of celebrity musicians that I was huge fans of. I guess Professor Hawking always had that aura of timelessness around him, and everyone just knew he was doing important work that would change humanity's understanding of the universe and our place in it.

It seems somehow unfair to have him taken away in the middle of all that.

EDIT: Fond memories of walking around Cambridge University two decades ago with my cousin, and she casually pointed to a building and said "Oh, Stephen Hawking works in there". Seemed so mundane to think that such important works were going on in some nondescript building that I just happened to be walking past. I always envisaged him working on a totally different plane from the rest of us mere peons.

cyberferret

9 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

Wait, is the Authy App SMS based as well? I thought it just used a clock sync to generate the keys like GA does? I could be totally wrong as I haven't set it up, but that's what I gathered from reading their site and downloading their app?

I thought the main difference was that the 2FA service details were saved in the cloud so you could sync up to multiple mobile devices using the Authy app?

cyberferret

9 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

The article states that Google Authenticator is more secure than Authy? As someone who has been using GA for a long time but thinking about moving to Authy - what is the rationale behind this assessment? Is it because Authy stores your 2FA sites in the cloud?

I was going to use that as a plus, as I have now had to switch phones twice, and re-setting up my GA 2FA sites on the new phone was a major PITA - I thought Authy would make that easier, but now I guess that feature could be an attack vector too?

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