[FUD] Google Authenticator

[Marino98 0]

Google authenticator with my phone number for 2FA? These are huge red flags that tells me AirVPN is not what they say they are i.e. secure and anonymous. Quite the contrary. Maybe even part of the great social engineering clik. No thanks. Glad I didn't actually buy a subscription.

[Staff 10111]

  On 3/24/2025 at 6:00 PM, Marino98 said:

Google authenticator with my phone number for 2FA? These are huge red flags that tells me AirVPN is not what they say they are i.e. secure and anonymous. Quite the contrary. Maybe even part of the great social engineering clik. No thanks. Glad I didn't actually buy a subscription.

Hello!

We offer TOTP based 2FA. TOTP is an open protocol. lt has been adopted as Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standard RFC 6238, it is not developed by Google. Furthermore, Google software and/or related services are not required in any way to use TOTP.

TOTP (Time-based one-time password) is "the cornerstone of Initiative for Open Authentication (OATH) and is used in a number of two-factor authentication (2FA) systems". It is also supported by the Google Authenticator app, but of course you are not forced to run this app (Google Authenticator does not requite anymore your phone number, just to be precise). Here you can see a wide list of apps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_OTP_applications

We are confident that this information will convince you of the imbecility of your beliefs.

Kind regards
 

[flat4 82]

I like ENTE Auth and bitwarden seems to the most compatible with protocols.

[OpenSourcerer 1467]

As for me, I use a hardware TAN and TOTP generator. Both types of generators are not supposed to be used on the same device as what you're trying to do (e.g. banking + TAN app on the same device, or logging into a website and viewing the OTP in Bitwarden in a browser tab next to it). So, I physically separated them