• warpotato@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Okay so I get this is a meme BUT I started using a yubikey instead of the auth app and it has done a world of good for my sanity.

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      3 days ago

      I transitioned everything to Bitwarden. Password manager, passkeys, and MFA code generation all in one app that works on all of my devices.

      And then I started to self-host it via Vaultwarden and transferred all the data.

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        3 days ago

        How do you like the self hosted approach? I contemplate it every so often, but I’m not sure that my sysadmin abilities (and attention) are enough to keep it secure.

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      Depends on your org. I have a yubikey, a phone app Authenticator, a pin and my regular SSO login/password. All of which I have to use constantly, because some dumbass did something dumb like two fucking years ago. So I can hardly get shit done. Plus the same dumbasses who probably fucked all this up are writing production code for an actual product. Please kill me.

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        3 days ago

        I hear that if you lock down your system so much that no one can access anything that’s peak security.

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      3 days ago

      I too have a yubikey. My advice, have something that functions as a backup.

      Other than that, yes. It’s way better than alternatives.

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        2 days ago

        Yeah, I got 4 because I’m paranoid about losing access to things, and still spread out backup TFA mechanisms… I don’t trust technology to be reliable enough, heh.

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          2 days ago

          Personally, I have the second Gen Google Titan USB keys, I upgraded from the first Gen some time ago. They’re Fido2 so they’re very equivalent to yubikey in most respects.

          I use my yubikey for work. I connect it to anything and everything I can. I use Microsoft’s authenticator as my backup for work.

          I have a pair of Fido2 keys for personal with totp backups, and recovery codes as a last line of defense (stored in a secure location), and one Fido2 key with totp backups for work.

          Ironically, the least secure account I have is for my bank, which doesn’t support Fido2 (or anything other than SMS).

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      3 days ago

      Are you using the slightly more expensive one capable of generating TOTP codes?

      I also use a Yubikey too, but I still have to use another 2FA app for services that don’t support passkeys yet.