ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
Multi-Factor Authentication is a technique to try to get around the users response to the obnoxious nature of passwords. Whether or not it improves things or just manages to further annoy the poop out of the users is up for debate.
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Certain people should not drink; certain people should not drive; and I wonder sometimes if certain users should consider that they really should not be using computers, and considering the poor nature of the security, starting with Windows users.
I'm inclined to feel it's just another level of useless annoyance. I don't see it stopping fishing when people just respond to hackers as if they were a legit company, following all the instructions from the hacker to compromise themselves.
I've also said for a long time that computing is not many people's forte, they don't have the aptitude for it, and they shouldn't be forced into it. Don't make seniors have to keep their pension, banking, medical data, etc, organised on-line.
I was always surprised when people who could barely read would ask me to fix their computer for them, which they were doing a lot of reading- related activities on. Don't know why they wanted to do something they clearly hated.