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The company last year hired a new IT Security Director. One of his goals was to implement Microsoft's Multi-Factor Authentication... and use the IT department as the guinea pigs.
All we needed to do was to install the MFA app onto our smart phones and press a button every couple of weeks. There shouldn't be any problems...
1. What if I only have a feature phone (aka Dumb Phone)?
2. What if I have a Windows Phone?
3. What if I don't get phone service because I am buried within a manufacturing building?
As those answers could not be satisfactorily answered, they have realized that MFA can be setup to call a phone; and I do have a desk phone at work so we are all good. And I can go back to secondary phone numbers which also can be called or SMS'd. All is well in the world.
or is it
Now to the present, and 80% of the staff is now working from home. MFA kicks in and rings the desk phone incessantly, annoying my coworkers; even if I choose to rollback to secondary numbers. To be the nice guy, I have muted the ringer at the end of the 1 day a week that I am in the office.
So... I needed to talk to someone at one of our manufacturing facilities. Skype or Teams was out as their desktop computer is not equipped with a mic or speakers.
What to do? I got it; install the SoftPhone app from work and get it setup.
And then the realization came to me... So the increased security measure that I either have to be at work to answer my deskphone or answer my personal phone is now defeated by the fact that my laptop rings instead of any physical phone.
I Won!
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Some of that stuff, like what if I don't have a phone accessible, I've argued with some financial companies. One game me a special "work around" that I had to agree to (i.e., take on some risk). The other, fortunately, manages to recognize my primary machines and only calls now and then.
But a new degree of idiocy has appeared! I wanted to add a bank account (actually, change the account number since I changed them all some years ago when I lost a data-filled jump-drive). Well, the only way to authenticate oneself to them is by giving them your cell phone and them checking the identity of the account owner. My ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ing phone is on an account with my daughter/son-in-law as part of a group plan. So, it always fails. They don't seem to care. (I will vote with my money),
As implied in one of my tag-lines, the idiots just keep evolving.
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Yeah, like trying to change my phone number at one of my banks. They need to call to verify it's really me. On the number they have. Which I want to change. Because it's no longer valid.
modified 4-May-20 2:49am.
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Does this place have a network forum
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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The closest would be the System Admin Discussion Boards[^].
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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Unless he's trying to make friends. 
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Well.. this is a forum on the internet which is the largest computer network
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Turns out the spread of the Coronavirus is based on just two things:
1. How dense the population is
2. How dense the population is
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And:
3. How thick the population is
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RickZeeland wrote: How thick the population is
Fat people always have it rough.
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Isn't there an old Peanuts strip where Snoopy is sitting on top of his dog house waiting for his food, reading "Survival of the fattest"?
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shhhhh, keep it down.
Do you realise how much politicians and the news media could lose if that got out?
pestilence [ pes-tl-uh ns ] noun
1. a deadly or virulent epidemic disease. especially bubonic plague.
2. something that is considered harmful, destructive, or evil.
Synonyms: pest, plague, CCP
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You know that every country have the politicians they deserve.
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OK, (being serious) - let's stop this one right here
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(Jörgen ... not faulting you - I accept blame for starting it.)
pestilence [ pes-tl-uh ns ] noun
1. a deadly or virulent epidemic disease. especially bubonic plague.
2. something that is considered harmful, destructive, or evil.
Synonyms: pest, plague, CCP
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No worries, I thought that as long as we don't namedrop and point fingers all will be ok, I think few people will actually disagree. (Now I'm going to read the rest of the thread.  )
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The USA have the best politicians money can buy!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Forogar wrote: The USA have the best politicians money can buy!
Not true. I could do a lot better for a lot less. 
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And don't forget their appointees!
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: You know that every country have the politicians they deserve.
North Korea deserves him? China deserves communism? Canada deserves Justin Bieber? Hmm. Interesting.
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ZurdoDev wrote: Jörgen Andersson wrote: You know that every country have the politicians they deserve.
I think the saying applies to countries in which people can choose their leaders. But you knew that already.
ZurdoDev wrote: Canada deserves Justin Bieber?
Bieber turned to politics? God help us all...
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dandy72 wrote: But you knew that already.
Actually I didn't. But regardless, it's a catchy cliche but still wrong.
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ZurdoDev wrote: Canada deserves Justin Bieber?
Aye? They, in fact, deserve Quebec (no longer KSS at this point, is it?).
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: Quebec
Is Quebec a bad thing?
I have only been to Canada once maybe, and I did like it. But I don't know Quebec.
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last time I was in Quebec was during the Winter a few years back,
forgot most of the details but do remember hotel was about 5 miles north of Miami.
pestilence [ pes-tl-uh ns ] noun
1. a deadly or virulent epidemic disease. especially bubonic plague.
2. something that is considered harmful, destructive, or evil.
Synonyms: pest, plague, CCP
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ZurdoDev wrote: Is Quebec a bad thing?
Possibly the original source of the term "NIMBY" . . . besides having that "attitude" common to speakers of French.
Think of it as something in Canada "you don't want to step in" (and all associated implications thereof).
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