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How Google Authenticator gave attackers one company’s keys to the kingdom

Google's app for generating MFA codes syncs to user accounts by default. Who knew?

arstechnica.com/security/2023/

Hawkmoon

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I was wondering why the university I'm attending uses a non-Google/non-Microsoft authenticator.

@Hawkmoon @arstechnica Hopefully they are using an #opensource alternative; those don't have a perverse incentive to tie the app to an account managed by a member of #GAFAM

There are several such options; #FreeOTP is my favorite freeotp.github.io/

freeotp.github.ioFreeOTP