On 11-09-19 15:00, Nancy Backus <=-
spoke to Michael Loo about Re: 194 what's this all a <=-
Ah, smartphones. I had to access my government account
the other day, and there's this multistep identification
process involving a smartphone, and last time I logged
in I used Lilli's phone, which doesn't help me 2600
miles away, and it was slightly irritating to have to
go to a secondary and more lengthy kind of verification.
Smartphone use is considered normal and expected nowadays... Richard's
run into that, where they want to use a smartphone for multistep identification, and neither of us has one, he doesn't even have a
simple cell phone....
Quoting Dale Shipp to Nancy Backus on 11-11-19 04:18 <=-
Ah, smartphones. I had to access my government account the other
day, and there's this multistep identification process involving a
smartphone, and last time I logged in I used Lilli's phone, which
doesn't help me 2600 miles away, and it was slightly irritating to
have to go to a secondary and more lengthy kind of verification.
Smartphone use is considered normal and expected nowadays... Richard's
run into that, where they want to use a smartphone for multistep
identification, and neither of us has one, he doesn't even have a
simple cell phone....
I sometimes get requests for my cell phone number -- but I resist.
Then when some web site decides that it wants an extra security step, I get it to send me the code via voice, not text.
Then they leave me alone for a while, at least until some cookie on
my computer gets deleted.
On 11-19-19 18:26, Nancy Backus <=-
spoke to Dale Shipp about Re: Smart phones <=-
Smartphone use is considered normal and expected nowadays... Richard's
run into that, where they want to use a smartphone for multistep
identification, and neither of us has one, he doesn't even have a
simple cell phone....
I sometimes get requests for my cell phone number -- but I resist.
Then when some web site decides that it wants an extra security step, I get it to send me the code via voice, not text.
I also resist giving out my cell phone, and also my email... generally what gets sent to email is huge and HTML and practically useless to
me... I'm also not going on to websites that require security steps,
so I avoid that as well....
Then they leave me alone for a while, at least until some cookie on
my computer gets deleted.
My browser deletes cookies as a matter of course as it closes down...
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