keitha
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Post by keitha on Dec 18, 2021 13:49:17 GMT
some 2FA is a farce,
Hive App keeps prompting me to use it.
To use it it will send a code to my phone when I use the app to ensure it's me, durr the App is on the phone so the message comes to the same device, and given where I am out in the sticks it can take up to an hour for the code to arrive, but it's only valid for 10 minutes. and if I'm cold and want to boost my heating I don't want to wait for the code.
Having said that when I first installed another App ( may have been EWELINK ) it sent a code via Email that you had to enter within a minute, I think it took me about 20 attempts to actually receive the code within a minute of being sent.
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Post by agent69 on Dec 18, 2021 13:57:16 GMT
some 2FA is a farce, Hive App keeps prompting me to use it. To use it it will send a code to my phone when I use the app to ensure it's me, durr the App is on the phone so the message comes to the same device, and given where I am out in the sticks it can take up to an hour for the code to arrive, but it's only valid for 10 minutes. and if I'm cold and want to boost my heating I don't want to wait for the code. Having said that when I first installed another App ( may have been EWELINK ) it sent a code via Email that you had to enter within a minute, I think it took me about 20 attempts to actually receive the code within a minute of being sent. Chuck another log on the fire?
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keitha
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Post by keitha on Dec 18, 2021 14:19:36 GMT
some 2FA is a farce, Hive App keeps prompting me to use it. To use it it will send a code to my phone when I use the app to ensure it's me, durr the App is on the phone so the message comes to the same device, and given where I am out in the sticks it can take up to an hour for the code to arrive, but it's only valid for 10 minutes. and if I'm cold and want to boost my heating I don't want to wait for the code. Having said that when I first installed another App ( may have been EWELINK ) it sent a code via Email that you had to enter within a minute, I think it took me about 20 attempts to actually receive the code within a minute of being sent. Chuck another log on the fire? Nah just tweak the setting manually
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Post by bernythedolt on Dec 18, 2021 19:42:52 GMT
some 2FA is a farce, Hive App keeps prompting me to use it. To use it it will send a code to my phone when I use the app to ensure it's me, durr the App is on the phone so the message comes to the same device, and given where I am out in the sticks it can take up to an hour for the code to arrive, but it's only valid for 10 minutes. and if I'm cold and want to boost my heating I don't want to wait for the code. Having said that when I first installed another App ( may have been EWELINK ) it sent a code via Email that you had to enter within a minute, I think it took me about 20 attempts to actually receive the code within a minute of being sent. You've just described precisely why I'd never subjugate anything important to a phone app. Remember Tesla drivers unable to start/unlock(?) their cars because the "computer says no"? Having spent my entire career in IT, I learned just how irritating computers can become, how frequently the systems change, and how much of our lives we have to dedicate to satisfying the ever changing, ever increasing demands that some techie thought was the next bright idea. I'll stay a Luddite and operate my heating manually. 
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Post by mfaxford on Dec 19, 2021 11:05:02 GMT
You've just described precisely why I'd never subjugate anything important to a phone app. Remember Tesla drivers unable to start/unlock(?) their cars because the "computer says no"? I think there's a wider issue, not just relying on phone apps. The recent Facebook outage comes to mind, where I believe part of the issue was along the lines of they couldn't get engineers into the building to fix the network as the network was down meaning their electronic passes didn't work.
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keitha
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Post by keitha on Dec 19, 2021 11:29:47 GMT
Had that situation myself, over a weekend the access control system updated, Normally the readers had enough inbuilt intelligence ( copy of database ) to know which cards were allowed through the doors if the controlling PC didn't respond. Unfortunately the PC response was in a slightly changed format so wasn't the yes / no the controller expected so defaulted to no.
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Post by moonraker on Jan 15, 2022 16:19:36 GMT
To add to my observations about proving ID (and this one is not a moan, more a "sigh"): yesterday I had an email from Zopa advising that my ISA was now ready for transfer, so I filled in an on-line transfer form from Aldermore, duly giving my two first names in full, as requested. Later on through the form, I was informed that my details did not match my bank account and perhaps I'd recently moved to a new address. In fact I've lived at the same one for 46 years and had the same bank account for 58.
I guessed that the problem arose from the bank account showing not my first names but their initials. As most, if not all, of us know, banks like exact matches nowadays. As requested, I printed off a recent bank statement that included my account details.
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