In the last hour I’ve logged into my IRS account, my bank account, Intuit payroll, my E-prescribing account, the state narcotic database, my retirement account, the hospital Epic system, and my spam filter account, and I’m sitting here wishing there was one authenticator app they’d all use.
And then I began thinking “One authenticator app to rule them all, one authenticator app to find them, one app to log in to all, and on my monitor bind them.”
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And I hope Sauron doesn’t find it…
My precious!
And how'd that idea work out in Middle Earth?
The best part is that, if that one authenticator app goes down, you won't be able to do anything and you'll have an excuse to take the day off.
Think of how different things would be if there was two-factor authentication at the Mines of Moria.
If you have the One Authenticator App, does everyone using Duo, Google Authenticator, etc. become your Nazgûl?
When you get a new phone, can you just transfer the One Authenticator App to it, or do you first have to take your old phone to the Foxconn factory in Shenzhen and throw it in the volcano in which it was forged?
And that's how Isildur was able to get the money to renovate Minas Tirith by logging into Sauron's E-Trade account.
But if one authenticator app rules them all, wouldn't it also rule itself, given that it's also an authenticator app? Then you get an infinite loop of ruling.
And what's with the recent obsession with passkeys? Great on mobile where you have biometrics, but this is a PC, but it still tries that route and when that errors out then it will let me select another way.
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