Coming up on Hands on Tech, let's take a look at the process of switching multi-factor

authentication apps and or services. Stay tuned.

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Hello and welcome to yet another thrilling episode of Hands on Tech, the episode, the

show, rather, where I, Micah Sargent, take your tech questions and do my dadgum best to

answer them.

Today we are looking at a question that comes in from Daniel. Daniel writes in with

the following. Your most recent episode of Hands on Tech brought up a question that I've been thinking

about. I am currently using Offi for my multi-factor codes, and I realize my mistake that I can't

get them out easily to go to another device. A friend had recommended I go to Proton,

which does allow exporting. So I'm fine, either going to Proton or Microsoft or Google. I'm just

dreading the work. So for example, what would I need to do? I would have to go to like my

Gmail account settings and turn off multifactor and then turn it back on to get that barcode

to set it up with whatever new authentication app I moved to.

So Daniel, this is a great question.

As I mentioned in the episode where we talked about multifactor authentication apps, the question

was more at the time just about sort of generally what I recommend.

And my, you can learn more in that episode, but my sort of end result was to say that for me,

and for many people, it's enough to just use your password management app as your multi-factor authentication app as well. Some people want to have

those as separate services, but we talked about Offi and my complaints that I had about

offy, which is primarily the fact that it tries to do multi-factor authentication in a bit of a

proprietary way where it works specifically

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