{"id":7769,"date":"2013-09-04T15:14:19","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T19:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=7769"},"modified":"2021-07-03T14:15:40","modified_gmt":"2021-07-03T18:15:40","slug":"google-authenticator-2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/04\/google-authenticator-2-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Authenticator 2.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sparsebundle.net\/posts\/google-authenticator-upgrade-loses-all-accounts\">Jordan Merrick<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.sparsebundle.net\/posts\/google-authenticator-upgrade-loses-all-accounts\"><p>Lots of people on Twitter and HN reporting that the latest update to Google Authenticator, Google&rsquo;s app for dealing with two-factor authentication, removes any account you&rsquo;ve set up.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Google has now pulled the <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/google-authenticator\/id388497605?mt=8&amp;at=10l6nc\">iOS app<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=6325858\">orand<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=6325858\"><p>If they had released this two weeks later, iOS 7&rsquo;s auto-update feature would have bricked everyone&rsquo;s accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Google Auth 2.0 redefines two-factor auth: something you know + something you DON&rsquo;T have. Their entire purpose in life is this second part and they completely and absolutely botched it. I can&rsquo;t believe this passed testing at both Google and Apple.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Do people really think that the App Store reviewers do this sort of testing? The other iOS-related problem is that, even if you still have an old copy of the app, there&rsquo;s no way to restore the data for it without overwriting your newer data in other apps.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=6325894\">noveltyaccount<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=6325894\"><p>When I add sites to Authenticator, I take a screenshot of the QR code and tuck it away in an encrypted document<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I had thought the codes were time-dependent, but apparently not. Perhaps I should be saving them in 1Password.<\/p>\n<p>Update (2013-09-10): <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/google-authenticator\/id388497605?mt=8&amp;at=10l6nc\">Google Authenticator 2.0.1<\/a> is now available and fixes the bug.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jordan Merrick: Lots of people on Twitter and HN reporting that the latest update to Google Authenticator, Google&rsquo;s app for dealing with two-factor authentication, removes any account you&rsquo;ve set up. Google has now pulled the iOS app. orand: If they had released this two weeks later, iOS 7&rsquo;s auto-update feature would have bricked everyone&rsquo;s accounts. 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