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Not everybody owns or wants a smartphone. Linode needs to extend this to some non-smartphone device, like YubiKey, or offer SMS codes, like Google Authenticator. This is a step in the right direction, but is ultimately disappointing for me.

👤oinksoft🕑12y🔼0🗨️0

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TOTP works fine with physical tokens. e.g. http://onlinenoram.gemalto.com/

All they need to do is let users locally generate (i.e. in the token) seeds and then enter those into the web portal, vs. generating seeds internal to the portal, displaying them, and having the user enter them into the authenticator app or token (because the tokens don't allow you to enter a seed).

👤rdl🕑12y🔼0🗨️0

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I have to imagine the overlap between Linode customers and smart phone owners was so large (and the cost of implementation so low) that leaving out hardware authenticators makes sense for v1.

👤madsushi🕑12y🔼0🗨️0

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How many of linode's subscribers do you think not own a smartphone? I mean, outside of your enclave?

👤johansch🕑12y🔼0🗨️0

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Why can't they just use a second email address?

👤ZeroCoin🕑12y🔼0🗨️0