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I dropped my paid Dropbox account when they instituted "two factor authentication" because it broke the use case of file transfer between trusted parties using
by istillwritecode 7y ago
I dropped my paid Dropbox account when they instituted "two factor authentication" because it broke the use case of file transfer between trusted parties using a single account. Now I'm going to drop my OneDrive account for the same reason.
- dtech 7y agoYou can also share the MFA private key if you really want to, and it's excellent security for 99,999999% of the use cases otherwise. Or just use 2 accounts and share the file...
- istillwritecode 7y agoI don't use MFA because it requires me to provide a phone number. SMS is not a reliable authentication method anyway - it's only an improvement for people who can't manage passwords.