Extending MFA Protection to Viewer Login

[Sid]

Extending MFA Protection to Viewer Login

We are pleased to announce we have added MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication) protection to the Viewer. Recently we added MFA to web login. Now it works with Viewer login as well. To start using it, you will need to enable MFA for your account on this page: https://accounts.secondlife.com/mfa/status...

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Maybe useful if you have big sums of money in world.
But otherwise.... nah. I keep it as it is.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

So now I need a Masters in Fine Art just to log in?

 

[Free]

I thought it meant we had to become members of the Mixed Fighting Alliance.

 

[Govi]

I thought it was Most Fallacious Acronym.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

LOL: "When you log in, Second Life connects to the authenticator app to make sure the token you provide matches the one generated by the authenticator app"

They really oughta have gotten someone who knows how TOTP (time-based one time password) works to write this up.

 

[Amelia Freund]

I'm still yet to set MFA up after my main was hacked a few months ago.
Will the other views such as Firestorm have to adopt it as well though?

 

[Beebo Brink]

I was so looking forward to retirement and no more MFA logins....

 

[Essence Lumin]

I'm still yet to set MFA up after my main was hacked a few months ago.
Will the other views such as Firestorm have to adopt it as well though?

From the announcement,

For now, if you try to log in with a Viewer that is not MFA-enabled, nothing will change, and you will still be able to log in without a token. However, if you have opted in to MFA then a token will be required for all Viewer logins beginning in the near future.

 

[WolfEyes]

One good thing, you still have to opt in even with an MFA enabled viewer. So, it's not being forced on anyone that doesn't want it. It's not like the whole world needs to know if your opted in or not.

 

[Andi]

The industry at some point will require every one to use mfa/2fa options, rather they just allow me to biometric login instead.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Google and Apple are talking about eliminating passwords and turning MFA into 1FA.

 

[Free]

I want 0FA.

 

[Andi]

I want 0FA.

nothing secure, all the fun...