Why is 2 Step Verification Now Required?

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Rob Neidig

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Trying to log in today and I get a message that I have to turn on 2 step verification to continue. This is, frankly, a royal pain in the rear. If this is some sort of hack, please let me know. Otherwise I request that you allow us to log in as always without having to put in an additional code that we have to go out to our email to get.

THANKS!

Rob
 
My presumption is that it’s to curtail the inundation of spam and bots.

I just logged in and it looks like you have the option of telling the system to trust your device for 30 days, so it may only be a once-a-month thing of having to go through the two-step process.
 
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adding an app as primary ID, or a list of random codes by email? seems the forum software designers haven't quite got a handle on typical forum users aged over 25? I moderate two forums and the behind the scenes stuff is a continual nightmare process, but this might be a one off thing. Having to authenticate every time will be a real turn off to some users. Believe it or not, sometimes my phone is NOT with me. Will I get up, and go and hunt for it to read posts? Time will tell.

AAAH!
I see that now on my phone, it autogenerates the ID, so on a phone it's quick and easy. On a computer, it's the mangled system.
 
Rob Neidig said:
Trying to log in today and I get a message that I have to turn on 2 step verification to continue. This is, frankly, a royal pain in the rear. If this is some sort of hack, please let me know. Otherwise I request that you allow us to log in as always without having to put in an additional code that we have to go out to our email to get.

THANKS!

Rob
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Absolutely a pain. I tried numerous times with three Authenticator Apps, and every time I got the message "Oops something went wrong". In the end, I had to go the email route. What a pain. Using an authenticator app on your phone is all very well until the app gets corrupted on your phone, or you drop your phone in water, and it's not waterproof or worse still your phone gets stolen. It's very easy for someone else to use your phone authenticator app to log in to certain accounts. Sorry, don't like it. I've experienced the corrupted app on the phone, and it took me two days to get an email provider's support team to lift the 2FA so that I could log in. Had a client who though I was not answering his mail!!

Sorry, not for me. Too risky. I'll probably have to give this forum a miss, as this is step is one too far for me on what is basically a public forum. Even Facebook doesn't require it, and that's basically a public forum. For my email or banking or some other account where there could be severe consequences if the account was hacked... maybe. But not a chat and info forum, IMHO that's overkill. It would be sad to go as on this forum I've picked up a lot of help and info from other users over the years, and hopefully it was a two-way street, that I was able to help others.

Chris Young
 
I used the email and 30 day option, but that was at the second attempt. However, I suspect it could be frustrating to users who aren't regular.

On the forum I moderate, the spammers tend to hit and run and appear not to be bots. They hide the spam on old threads, by not initially including the spam and then editing it in at a later stage. Currently, they are putting it into profiles with a name related to the company/product and putting spam into the "about" - I guess search engines find it.

A check was discussed with the site admin, but it was decided to keep things simple for new users.
 
I didn’t have any issues logging in with 2FA(ironically after not being able to log in for months after the forum change). But my question is, if it’s an embedded part of the forum software and can’t be turned off, why is it just now “ON”, despite the forum being on this new software for months?
 
cyvideo said:
Absolutely a pain. I tried numerous times with three Authenticator Apps, and every time I got the message "Oops something went wrong". In the end, I had to go the email route. What a pain. Using an authenticator app on your phone is all very well until the app gets corrupted on your phone, or you drop your phone in water, and it's not waterproof or worse still your phone gets stolen. It's very easy for someone else to use your phone authenticator app to log in to certain accounts. Sorry, don't like it. I've experienced the corrupted app on the phone, and it took me two days to get an email provider's support team to lift the 2FA so that I could log in. Had a client who though I was not answering his mail!!

Sorry, not for me. Too risky. I'll probably have to give this forum a miss, as this is step is one too far for me on what is basically a public forum. Even Facebook doesn't require it, and that's basically a public forum. For my email or banking or some other account where there could be severe consequences if the account was hacked... maybe. But not a chat and info forum, IMHO that's overkill. It would be sad to go as on this forum I've picked up a lot of help and info from other users over the years, and hopefully it was a two-way street, that I was able to help others.

Chris Young
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Would hate to see you go, Chris. But totally get it. Ugh.
It has already gotten pretty sparse around here... this might be another nail in the coffin.
 
Something that may be helpful: it gave me 10 pre-generated codes to use if I lost access to my phone. I usually access DVX from either my laptop or my iPad. I just screenshotted the codes with my iPad, so they are always on it in my pictures app/folder and then just send that screenshot to my laptop to store there, for easy access, as well, if it’d ever have to use them. Yeah, it’s still less convenient, but at least keeps the back-up access “right there”.
 
I work across a couple of computers and so far it is requiring a 2FA *every time* I visit. I was visiting less anyway as the conversations I was interested in, or had any life in, are getting fewer. This 2FA might be the final straw.
 
JAMedia said:
I work across a couple of computers and so far it is requiring a 2FA *every time* I visit. I was visiting less anyway as the conversations I was interested in, or had any life in, are getting fewer. This 2FA might be the final straw.
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Same here. There are three spots for me. The office, house and mobile.

As Run&Gun did, I went with the 10 pre-generated codes. It just complicates matters unnecessarily from my POV. Just have to evaluate whether to go the extra mile. It's not a big thing, it's just a nuisance I don't need. Another first world problem! As you say, activity on this forum have been a bit quieter in recent times and sadly moves like mandating 2FA logins is not going to engender more activity. Quite the opposite, I think, as a lot of people will just give the forum a miss, which would be a sad thing.

Chris Young
 
I have not been able to log in for months. To try and get on to make a couple of posts I tried (for the Nth time) to use the "forgot my password" and then it did not change my password but morphed my user name to Caribe... Seriously, WTF?

Right now I just want to kill my account...
 
We're not well-known members anymore, we're veterans.

You know what question I've had for about 15 years which I actually never asked or saw it discussed...

Back-in-the-day, for those first several years on DVXuser, like 4-5 years before my time, people had real or strange titles under their user names that seemed to be created by admin.

CP has/had "Director of Photography" but others would have something like "Troublemaker" or "Captain" (IDR exactly).

Of course a different time and general comradery, but I always wondered about that process.
 
NorBro said:
We're not well-known members anymore, we're veterans.

You know what question I've had for about 15 years which I actually never asked or saw it discussed...

Back-in-the-day, for those first several years on DVXuser, like 4-5 years before my time, people had real or strange titles under their user names that seemed to be created by admin.

CP has/had "Director of Photography" but others would have something like "Troublemaker" or "Captain" (IDR exactly).

Of course a different time and general comradery, but I always wondered about that process.
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What would you like to see? The suggestion box is open.
 
Oh, that's cool, thank you!

I don't know what's possible with the current software, but maybe something for the old-timers.

Could be simple, maybe being able to add a few words under your username (but not sure how you'd manage who would get that option).

We once had the infamous orange squares which was a nice way of showing who's been around, active, helpful (although there's usually more than meets the eye for some members) - but anything, really.
 
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