That little countdown on 2FA apps stresses the shit out of me. I feel like I'm diffusing a bomb.
If it gets into the red, I just wait. I can't handle the stress.
If it gets into the red, I just wait. I can't handle the stress.
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I hate 2FA.
The standard recommends that any service with 2FA should accept at-least the previous code (or even more!)
So while it turns red and “disappears” it’s still valid for 30 seconds - 2 minutes (unless the service is truly evil)
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6238#section-5.2
But unfortunately I seem to be David Rasche in Sledge Hammer.
You can be multiple codes “late”!
Of course it depends on how the service implements it, but there is no need to panic :))
“Slow is smooth and smooth is fast”
~ Navy Seals
I don't make the rules!
A new code is generated every 30 seconds, but the old code doesn't expire synchronously - old code remains valid and will be accepted for a period.
It's not that urgent!
Am I going to try? Absolutely not.
You've got plenty of time. Don't stress it :)
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i partly blame it on the stress of the countdown
I do this every day because I use Preview to annotate things with big red arrows. One of the best built-in apps in macOS, that one
"It's too close. Should I just wait for the next one!? No. I'll just try it and see if it works. No. It's too close."
Then I frantically type it in and it usually works 😅
https://kdeconnect.kde.org/download.html
let’s play a game
(It gets even trickier if you're using an open source TOTP app on an airgapped system that doesn't have an internal clock. Now you have to go into the terminal and set the clock just so, lol.)
:x