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  • It will be easier to hackers to hack 2FA when they know what the authenticator app is, versus hundreds of different authenticator clients.

    Security through obscurity is not security.

    Additionally, any method that generates a code locally that needs to match the server will not be secure if you can extract the key used locally. Yes you can argue that more users makes a juicier target, but I’d argue that Microsoft has the resources spend reducing the chance of an exploit and the resources to fix it fairly quickly. Much more so than any brand new team.

    The default authentication option for the company I work for is that a code is displayed in the screen of the device I’m logging into AND a push notification is sent to the Authenticator app, the app then prompts me to enter the code from authenticating device. To break that you’d need the username, password, a clone of the phone/device used to authenticate (or the original), and the user’s PIN for that device (MS Authenticator requires this to complete the authentication.)

    Yes MS Authentication services do sometimes go down, and yea it can impact my ability to work

    I am by no means a MS fanatic, but I’d trust them for mission critical authentication over something like Authy.










  • Maybe if the person who’s actions are being protested against are reasonable. When protesters are met by military forces and detained in trumped up charges of terrorism, then they don’t work until there looks to be consequences for the person/group being protested.

    As a rule of thumb if you have the military on your side protests get crushed. Look at Egypt for an example of what happens once the military gets involved.

    [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle\_of\_Blair\_Mountain](The Battle of Blair Mountain) is a good example on the US end. Striking US mine workers crushed by the US military on US soil. You could argue that it was one of many events that led to labor protections, but it wasn’t the inviting event and those protections came more than a decade later.


  • Since this is in nostupidquesrions and not a piracy community I’ll offer a different take:

    Try your local library for physical copies. Depending on your library system, it may be free (or low cost) to have copies sent from other branches. Again depending on your system it may be possible to get copies from libraries outside of the system through Inter Library Loans (ILL) if your library participates.

    Also library systems may have access to some streaming content, depends on your system. Some large cities, like NYC, offer library cards to everyone in t the state.

    Tangentially related, the Internet Archive also hosts tons of material you might not find anywhere else. Probably not what you’re looking for, but I’ve found things like Mister Rogers episodes there that aren’t available on Amazon or DVDs. Quality of content may vary and you’re more likely to find older content there.