{"id":191,"date":"2014-11-02T19:43:47","date_gmt":"2014-11-02T19:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iddles.co.uk\/blogs\/?p=191"},"modified":"2014-11-02T19:43:47","modified_gmt":"2014-11-02T19:43:47","slug":"so-that-went-well-the-pains-of-multi-factor-authentication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iddles.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/11\/02\/so-that-went-well-the-pains-of-multi-factor-authentication\/","title":{"rendered":"So that went well&#8230;&#8230;   The pains of multi factor Authentication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First day in my &#8216;post a day&#8217; challenge for November went well with me missing a post&#8230;so I shall indevor to catch back up \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 ..<br \/>\nThere is a few reasons for this but one of the reasons is that I can&#8217;t just post from any device.\u00a0 I took the plunge a good while back and protect the site using the fantasic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duosecurity.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Duo Security<\/a> two factor authentication system which means I have to have my phone to hand when logging into my Blog.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duosecurity.com\/static\/images\/home-phone-app-totp.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"493\" \/><br \/>\nYes, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Multi-factor_authentication\" target=\"_blank\">multi factor authentication<\/a> is a\u00a0 pain in the ass but thats security.\u00a0 Its about balancing security with usability.\u00a0 I&#8217;d rather have the pain than allowing someone else to blog as me.<br \/>\nI also recomend using two factor authentication for all of your &#8216;primary&#8217; accounts such as Microsoft (Technet, Outlook, Office 365), Google (+, gMail, Webmaster Tools), Apple\u00a0 (iTunes, iCloud), Twitter and Facebook.\u00a0\u00a0 Using Windows Phone, I use the Microsoft Authenticator app which can be used for all of the sites listed here.<br \/>\nLogging on can be a pain, but I&#8217;d rather have the extra security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First day in my &#8216;post a day&#8217; challenge for November went well with me missing a post&#8230;so I shall indevor to catch back up \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 .. There is a few reasons for this but one of the reasons is that I can&#8217;t just post from any device.\u00a0 I took the plunge a good while back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-security","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iddles.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iddles.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iddles.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iddles.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iddles.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iddles.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iddles.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iddles.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iddles.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}