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Do you know how 2FA could be disabled on Lemmy without consent? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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How could 2FA be disabled if you need 2FA in order to login to disable it and my free OTP+ is biometric protected?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

ITT OP learns that 2FA is just a token stored on a server, and that server is in control by other people

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is what I thought. I keep telling people they don't exclusively own their passwords / security tokens once they give it to a site. Salted hashes to obscure the pw don't even matter since the admin could also bypass that. Tanks for the validation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And you better pray the website owner (websites in general, not Lemmy specifically) at least hashes your password.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

yes, the more layers of security, the better, even if it is just a futile matter of time to consume the time of an ATP.