Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Arno Welzel Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: We wiill send you a code Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2025 09:39:33 +0200 Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <09ojhlxkjk.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net kWuAEoBetIE3EHZC08m6DAWMvg7liurmwW61vmgOPPKOuxjTTD Cancel-Lock: sha1:Tvi2DH75P8AwplyH6hE7MMyR81Q= sha256:Rob5p1QePH7+Rxa2sOlm+enp+oOvLDO3gvWqIWnKkdg= Content-Language: en-US, de-DE In-Reply-To: micky, 2025-06-11 13:03: > In comp.mobile.android, on Mon, 9 Jun 2025 21:12:00 +0200, "Carlos E.R." > 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. -- Arno Welzel https://arnowelzel.de