GA now backups your codes in your Google account, so this doesn’t happen anymore.
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TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.world 4 months agoI started using Authy instead of GA because every time I changed the ROM on my phone I would lose all codes, because I would forget every time.
dev_null@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
ruse8145@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
They had an obvious solution which is export to an encrypted text files and went with the option that lowers your security
dev_null@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Google usually goes with the lowest common denominator solution. There is a staggering amount of people who don’t know what is a file, let alone that phones have any.
I_Clean_Here@lemmy.world 4 months ago
This isn’t about you and your silly follies
laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
I’ve started putting mine into my Bitwarden vault as well as Google auth, mainly because I’m a bit paranoid I’ll wind up locked out of something by trusting a second factor too much
Coreidan@lemmy.world 4 months ago
With password recovery you shouldn’t be getting locked out of anything. I don’t see this being a risk.
laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
Password recovery is itself a weakness in the system
And I did call myself paranoid for it…
Lem453@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Use aegis, export the keys and then reimport them every time you switch. Trusting your second factor to a cloud is a disaster waiting to happen.
If you want to get fancy setup your own cloud server (nextcloud, Seafile, owncloud etc) and set the backup folder for aegis to the self hosted cloud for easy restore every time you switch ROMs.
ruse8145@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
Simpler approach: auto export from aegis when an update occurs, syncthing or similar to your home PC. I have it synced across several computer in different locations and aegis is good enough to make unique filenames, combine with syncthing file history and I’m good for like 2 years of backups.