sovietknuckles [they/them]

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Cake day: July 26th, 2020

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  • SMS auth is going away,

    OP is looking for an alternative to MS Authenticator. If this works as an alternative temporarily, they may still consider it worth it.

    [I]t is not considered secure in the last few environments I have worked in

    Yes, SMS 2FA is usually not secure due being vulnerable to SIM card swapping attacks, that’s why I explicitly recommended using a VOIP number, which would not be vulnerable to SIM card swapping attacks.















  • Firefox Beta is for anyone who wants to use a version 1 month ahead of the latest stable Firefox version, and AFAIK it doesn’t have more telemetry than stable Firefox versions.

    Regardless, you can disable telemetry and studies by setting some preferences in about:config (or a user.js file):

    Preferences to set

    Source: https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/blob/fd72683abe15/user.js#L131-L175

    Preference value
    datareporting.policy.dataSubmissionEnabled false
    datareporting.healthreport.uploadEnabled false
    toolkit.telemetry.unified false
    toolkit.telemetry.enabled false
    toolkit.telemetry.server data:,
    toolkit.telemetry.archive.enabled false
    toolkit.telemetry.newProfilePing.enabled false
    toolkit.telemetry.shutdownPingSender.enabled false
    toolkit.telemetry.updatePing.enabled false
    toolkit.telemetry.bhrPing.enabled false
    toolkit.telemetry.firstShutdownPing.enabled false
    toolkit.telemetry.coverage.opt-out true
    toolkit.coverage.opt-out true
    toolkit.coverage.endpoint.base
    browser.ping-centre.telemetry false
    browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.telemetry false
    browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.telemetry false
    app.shield.optoutstudies.enabled false
    app.normandy.enabled false
    app.normandy.api_url