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From: Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de>
Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android
Subject: Re: We wiill send you a code
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2025 09:39:33 +0200
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micky, 2025-06-11 13:03:

> In comp.mobile.android, on Mon, 9 Jun 2025 21:12:00 +0200, "Carlos E.R."
> <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> On 2025-06-09 17:18, micky wrote:
>>> I'm seeing more and  more webpages that, after entering my userid, want
>>> to send me a code to log in to the page.  For a computer user, this is
>>> just silly, when he could have stored his password so that it pops right
>>> up, without going to read a text or email. And using one's password
>>> always has been the second option
>>
>> This is a fashion of 2FA, if i understand your description.
> 
> But why would the person whose account it actually is want to use 2FA,
> when he can just click and his saved password will fill the password
> field, rather than have them either send a text or email, have to go the
[...]

To make sure, that the account is protected even if someone has stolen
the password. That's the idea of 2FA.

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Arno Welzel
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