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Playing with more user-friendly methods for multi-factor authentication


People really don't like the way multi-factor authentication (MFA) works. It's a bad user experience. I designed some new, user-friendly MFA techniques.

The user just has to help their uncle access a 22-year-old Hotmail account before the passcode expires (upon expiry, the system will select a different relative at random). You just need to hire a consultancy to implement a custom Workday app (roughly a $2M investment) to support Cinemauth for Enterprise. Here's how it works: each user of the app sees a picture of a coworker's child, ideally one that's mentioned several times every week.

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