Twilio kills off Authy for desktop, forcibly logs out all users

2 years ago by fne8w2ah to c/technology

conciselyverbose 127 points 2 years ago

However, those who synced their desktop apps with the mobile versions have discovered that some of their tokens did not correctly synchronize, making their associate accounts inaccessible.

Lol

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specialseaweed 58 points 2 years ago

Well that fucking sucks.

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conciselyverbose 55 points 2 years ago

Yeah, laughing at the customers (who were making a good decision to make sure they had 2FA enabled) is kind of a dick move.

But from the perspective of the company fucking up that bad it's funny.

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specialseaweed 33 points 2 years ago

I use their phone app. I sure have a weekend chore to get the fuck off that app.

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femtech 17 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I told everyone at my company about it 2 months ago. I moved everything to bit warden.

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orca 6 points 2 years ago

I’ve been moving over to Okta’s app. Wondering if I should pick something else though. All of my credentials are in 1Password, but I don’t want my 2FA in the same place.

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_edge 64 points 2 years ago

I hope you all freed your 2fa secrets from this un-service.

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fne8w2ah 5 points 2 years ago

I did when the news first broke.

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net00 2 points 2 years ago
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Armand1 28 points 2 years ago

This prompted me to move away from Authy, and looking it up, it doesn't allow you to export your TOTP tokens. There were some workarounds but then have been plugged, I tried.

Mostly switched over to Bitwarden's equivalent. I've been using their password manager for many many years now and am very happy with it. They have an export feature in a few different formats.

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rekabis 6 points 2 years ago

I only ever used Authy as a single-item TOTP vault for BitWarden, but I moved off of it long before they ever mentioned the Windows app shutdown due to dissatisfaction with the UI. I just didn’t like their “card-like” interface, and they never offered a super-compact list-like interface. The card interface just wasted too much screen real estate, even on a desktop, and it just got immeasurably worse under mobile.

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retro 6 points 2 years ago

The work around did work however you needed to download an older archived version that was unpatched.

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Armand1 6 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I did that, but then it refused to let me log in, telling me the version was not secure or something.

Older versions appear to refuse to talk with their servers, at least that was the case for me.

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Boozilla 21 points 2 years ago
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PatrickYaa 65 points 2 years ago

I switched to Aegis

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beejjorgensen 17 points 2 years ago

I switched to Aegis when google authenticator didn't allow exports. It's simple and it works.

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Estebiu 0 points 2 years ago

Wait, google auth doesnt allow exports? For me it dies..? Am I missing something..?

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Scrollone 3 points 2 years ago

It allows exports but only is a stupid QR-code based format.

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beejjorgensen 1 point 2 years ago

It does now--it didn't in the past.

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fart_pickle 30 points 2 years ago

Bitwarden or Proton Pass.

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mosiacmango 16 points 2 years ago

Keepass. Standalone FOSS apps for desktop/phone. Has OTP support.

Password/tokens are stored in a small encrypted db file you can copy/paste anywhere you need it. Has hundreds of plugins to do various things.

Use something like syncthing/nextcloud/onedrive to keep the file in sync across devices.

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freecloudgal 12 points 2 years ago

Duo, Aegis, Bitwarden, Proton.

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Eezyville 9 points 2 years ago

I use KeePassXC and a Yubikey 5. You can store a certain number of 2fa on the key but i also back up the secret key and recovery codes on KeePassXC which is backed up on my Nextcloud. When using the Yubikey there is an app on desktop and mobile that reads they key but doesn't store the codes. Open the app, plug in the key, the TOTP appears, take the key out and the TOTP is gone.

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BakedCatboy 8 points 2 years ago

I like using bitwarden, the selfhosted vaultwarden server stores it with passwords and makes codes available in the app / browser extension. I also keep them backed up on a nas and synced off-site just in case.

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haulyard 7 points 2 years ago

Along with others already mentioned, 1Password can support 2fa.

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batcheck 2 points 2 years ago

1Password has impressed me. I’ve used KeePassXC, LastPass, Bitwarden (but not extensively and one of the early versions), and even CyberArk (🤮).

1Password is closed source but it’s one of those pieces of software that just works the way you expect it to. Hard to confirm a lot of their security claims. Just rolling with “Have not heard a lot about 1Password breaches” mentality.

We got lucky at work and used it to replace an unmanageable long list of KeePass database files that were sprawling everywhere. With that everyone who uses 1Password at work gets an associate private family account. Made managing my kids passwords and share some of our common family passwords way easier and I still get to lock them out of my passwords I don’t want them using.

I believe modern Bitwarden for enterprise has a similar licensing sweetener with a private family account for each corporate account.

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kolorafa 5 points 2 years ago

andOTP + bitwarden for me

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mosiacmango 2 points 2 years ago

AndOTP is great. Its free and had simple and easy encrypted backups. I love how its timer counts down, not up like some others and highlights the token in red so you know you need to hustle or wait.

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tja 1 point 2 years ago

It seems I cannot install it because the app is too old for Android 14..

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saiarcot895 1 point 2 years ago

That's odd, I'm on Android 14 and have andOTP installed.

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Damage 4 points 2 years ago

I switched to Ente Auth some time ago when bad news about authy started getting out

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anas 1 point 2 years ago

Same here, have no problems so far.

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Fubarberry 3 points 2 years ago

A lot of password managers support 2fa now. I use Enpass because I got a lifetime license a long time ago (it's also available to people with Google Play pass), but I know some other popular options have it too.

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BorgDrone 13 points 2 years ago

The whole point of 2FA is to keep the second factor separate from the first. If you store both in the same password manager app that defeats the entire point of 2FA.

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hikaru755 20 points 2 years ago

It still protects you from your passwords being compromised in any way except through a compromise of the password manager itself. Yes, it's worse than keeping them separate, but it's also still much better than not having 2fa at all.

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Pika 1 point 2 years ago

I only switched to keepass due to the fact that nothing seems to support a desktop application like authy did. Not everyone keeps a phone on them 24/7. If they don't want that risk they would allow desktop apps. least in my opinion

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EngineerGaming 1 point 2 years ago
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sheogorath 14 points 2 years ago

Well that's already my Monday morning gone. I use Authy desktop for all of my work 2FA tokens.

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bfg9k 13 points 2 years ago

KeePass has native TOTP support now

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Pika 1 point 2 years ago

this is what I did, syncthing syncs the DB across all my devices(including my phone), and it uses a certificate key + password for the master. It lets me secure all my stuff in one location without having to mess with my phone.

I know it's less secure but, nobody has a desktop app anymore, so I would rather just have it all in one place then have to dedicate another mobile app for it.

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zer0squar3d 10 points 2 years ago

Welp, time to finally migrate one at a time to Proton.

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EngineerGaming 13 points 2 years ago
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zer0squar3d 1 point 2 years ago

I moved from keepassxc to bitwarden then to proton pass when it was released. I'm not going back. I keep my recovery codes separate to prevent a complete lockout. But thanks for the suggestions.

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gedaliyah 8 points 2 years ago

I used Authy a couple years ago, do I need to be worried?

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PlutoniumAcid 5 points 2 years ago

Only if you use it currently. Otherwise no worries.

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gedaliyah 1 point 2 years ago

Thanks. I couldn't understand if there was a data breach that led to this or if it was just current users.

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fubarx 8 points 2 years ago

Just spent a week manually moving everything off Authy. Total pain, but there are lots of better solutions out there now.

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9tr6gyp3 1 point 2 years ago

Whoa

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