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Old Jan 26, 2023, 11:09 am
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Originally Posted by RNE
That squabble applies to any 2FA site. How would I access my bank in the air?
I mean, you're not really being fair. United is an airline. You probably wouldn't use a bank's authentication system that didn't work while you were actually on the bank premises.

Originally Posted by WineCountryUA
?? Millions of tokens just for elites and loss of token rate is ??? Again is the cost of the problem worth the cost of the solution
Oh, agree 100%. It's completely infeasible. I was trying to make the same point.

Originally Posted by WineCountryUA
For a worldwide solution???
UA is all-in on the smartphone app, and these soft token apps run on the same phones that the UA app does. I have Google Authenticator on my iPhone, and I can promise you it also works on Android.

Originally Posted by WineCountryUA
We are talking consumers, not high professionals
Eh, hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of UA customers log into similar systems. It'd be opt-in anyway. If UA really wants 2FA, this is the way to do it. It's a lot better than the SMS codes, which dmurphynj rightly points out are a joke.

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