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I am starting to see a majority of services, websites, and social networks offering the 2-step Authentication like crazy now to protect their users. Also, after reading how the Twitter Account N was hacked, 2-Step Authentication to protect our accounts online seems like a requirement more and more.

There is even a website to help see which services uses it and doesn't use it at Two Factor Auth (2FA).

I have had several major hacking attempts all over my social networking profiles, and own personal websites which I administrate and help run.

I also feel like we have to use it, or else we will have our banking accounts accessed and comprised.

With my last month experiences, I had 107 loggin attempts text messaged to me from my PayPal and Facebook account. They all failed, but if it wasn't for the login code texted to my phone, I would of had money taken out of my account.

Are we now forced to use 2-Step Authentication to keep our accounts and assets secure now? Should we make this a web standard to make sure people are secure to just visit our websites and services?

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Forced? No. But passwords alone have known weakness. Using 2-factor methods help to mitigate the risks of those weaknesses.

That also means that we can't make it a web standard for every login, because there are instances where it does not make sense in terms of mitigating those risks.

I suspect that the current 2-factor is a stepping stone to better things. Biometrics and physical tokens can be combined to provide something similar to 2-factor and people are working on making that accessible for the masses.

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  • Very true, my friend. For me, it is the only thing right now, besides for my long complex passwords, that is keeping people out of my accounts and services.
    – user42740
    May 1, 2014 at 5:51
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Well nobody is forcing us,but yeah it's comparatively secure than other authentication schemes. And since two-factor authentication is relatively new to the web (talking in a sense that number of exploits are very less) so I think we should give it some time to make sure that it fulfil our security concerns of safe internet usage.

P.S I am not an Englishman

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