• ExLisperA
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    12 days ago

    “Login with your Address”

    1. Insert address
    2. Letter is send
    3. Introduce code from the letter to authenticate

    Who will implement this?

    • edinbruh@feddit.it
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      Probably Italy. All institutions and many households still have a working but unused fax line in Italy (which most photocopiers still support). Many documents can only be transferred either in person or by fax.

      We are not savages, we have low cost multi-gigabit optic-fiber household connections available in the majority of cities. Our bureaucracy is just anachronistic.

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        Can’t you just send official stuff via Posta elettronica certificata? I thought that was the point of these sorts of systems

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          PEC is usually not free (neither is fax, but a landline is more common than PEC). But also, I think it’s not accepted everywhere. Maybe you can also use posta raccomandata. But for that you must go to the post office in person and wait in line with other 10 pensioners, and it also costs, so you are probably better off just handing the document in person.

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            Ah that’s a shame, if they made it free (at least for communication with the state) i think it could clear up the fax situation a lot. They did this in my country and it got rid of the faxes

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              Sometimes banks give you a PEC address, but it’s mostly for communicating with the bank, and you are paying for it as part of the bank’s services.

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      OMG Verizon.

      I JUST saw this yesterday when resetting my password.

      I expect they just mail you a temporary password with 2FA turned off.

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      I’m currently waiting on two separate authentication codes in the mail so the answer is, it’s already implemented quite often.

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      My healthcare governmental insurance… last time I had to request a password. Took 2 good weeks. Fucking crazy inefficient process for an application that in the end exposes close to zero PII. The juicy stuff is behind another account with 2FA and more.

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        It’s common for registration. Would be fun to have it for authentication as well. “My session expired. I need 3 days to log in again”.