Dashlane To Discontinue Its Authenticator App (dashlane.com) 14
Dashlane, in a support page: Due to changes in business priorities, we've decided to discontinue the Dashlane Authenticator app as of May 13, 2024. You can still use the main Dashlane app as an authenticator to protect logins stored in Dashlane with 2-factor authentication.
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Also - there are way too many authenticator apps riding on the Microsoft Authenticator wave and who knows which ones that can be trusted?
Good (Score:2)
There is absolutely no reason that so many TOTP Two factor apps - that all do the exact same thing - need to exist. It just creates confusion in an already confusing area.
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Usually they double as a method to send vendor-specific push notifications (i.e. Google, Microsoft) and only have the other TOTP functionality tacked on. Is there a FOSS solution?
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Only supporting Android seems short-sighted.
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I use Authenticator Pro.
https://github.com/jamie-mh/Au... [github.com]
FreeOTP on Android (Score:2)
I just use FreeOTP on Android. I believe it's FLOSS and currently maintained by people associated with Red Hat Linux. Does everything I need.
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FWIW, a very straight forward open source command line TOTP tool: oathtool
Get your secret key from the QR code or extract it from your existing authenticator.
Then feed it to oathtool:
oathtool -b --totp "your secret seed"
Get the next key:
oathtool -b --totp "your secret seed" --now "+30 seconds"
It also supports HOTP, different time steps, different digit output counts, etc.
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Yeah, authenticator apps are the new "flashlight" apps.
Except unlike a flashlight app, you are trusting it with sensitive secrets.
It is a little disconcerting that SEO is allowed for this type of app. For example, if I do a search for "Microsoft Authenticator" on the Apple AppStore, the first hit is for some random developer's app, not Microsoft's.
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It is a little disconcerting that SEO is allowed for this type of app.
Same in the Play store, the top result when you search for "microsoft authenticator" is a sponsored entry for "Authenticator App" by SafeAuth Services, with a logo suspiciously similar to Microsoft's one, that wants quite a lot of your money. Pretty shabby.
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I tried Dashlane once. Didn't like it, stopped using it. Thought I had paid for a year, apparently was put on auto-renew. Well, in the year that went by I lost my 2nd factor for Dashlane - which prevented me from turning off auto-renew. Dashlane would not help. The Dispute process did not go well. I literally had to cancel my credit card to stop Dashlane from billing for a service I never used.
Dark patterns make you an asshole, Dashlane, fuck you.
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I used to be a customer, until they started offering VPN on all accounts. Ummm... no thanks. I don't want it. They told me to pound sand. I went to BitWarden and never looked back. Security apps should not be grouped. Oh you want to control my password vault AND my TOTP? Whoever in their right mind makes THAT convenience over security choice deserves to have their crypto wallets drained, imo.