How could 2FA be disabled if you need 2FA in order to login to disable it and my free OTP+ is biometric protected?
Locking as this question violates rule 5.
Ask your instance administrator.
This was unfortunately an error on our end.
Please bear with us while we work on resolving this situation.
2FA has been restored for all LW users that had it enabled before and didn’t reactivate it on their own since.
There will be an announcement posted later on explaining what happened.
edit: announcement is out: https://lemmy.world/post/18503967
ITT OP learns that 2FA is just a token stored on a server, and that server is in control by other people
This is what I thought. I keep telling people they don’t exclusively own their passwords / security tokens once they give it to a site. Salted hashes to obscure the pw don’t even matter since the admin could also bypass that. Tanks for the validation.
And you better pray the website owner (websites in general, not Lemmy specifically) at least hashes your password.
yes, the more layers of security, the better, even if it is just a futile matter of time to consume the time of an ATP.
Going to need a lot more context than that.
I’m sure site admins could just clear the 2FA field if they wanted. Would they? IDK, probably not unless they had good reason.
Could someone steal your session information and disable your 2FA with that? Yeah, but I doubt they did, you’d have to have your system compromised or some kind of cross site scripting.
Did you use any shady lemmy clients?
etc
No, nothing shady. Just was notified there was a mistake on the server end. Perhaps tmi to elaborate…
The server owner has complete control of your account.
They could very easily take control completely if they want.
This is what I thought. I keep telling people they don’t exclusively own their passwords / security tokens once they give it to a site.
If I shared encrypted info that I kept encrypted, I guess it would still be mine but no one could then read it.
