Google MFA Without Mobile Device

[ladymuck]

Could you not just have nipped out to the Carphone Whorehouse (or Cash Converters) and bought a SIM free phone, and battered your existing SIM into it ? Problem solved, in 30 mins max.

Plenty of options near the OP

https://www.yelp.com/search?cflt=paw...estry%2C+Powys

[northernladuk]

Could you not just have nipped out to the Carphone Whorehouse (or Cash Converters) and bought a SIM free phone, and battered your existing SIM into it ? Problem solved, in 30 mins max.

But if he did that how can he cry all day on a forum of his peers that DGAS?

[Baddish]

Plenty of options near the OP

https://www.yelp.com/search?cflt=paw...estry%2C+Powys

No it is difficult because at the moment I am surrounded by fowls in a temporary accommodation in countryside until my lady wife joins me and I have only a 2 wheeler for transportation. This course of action is going to take many hours off billable work. I have a new one arriving from Amazon today so my sistuation is resolving itself.

It is my opinion though that this incident highlights the many day to day tasks that we are undertaking with smartphones and our dependency on technologies like this and I don't think this is necessarily a healthy form of progress. There should always be non digital option for everything as we have to consider non digital natives and the elderly.

Also I can report that the service desk has replied to my email and they will reset 2FA so I can set up with new device

[b0redom]

Now I'm definitely calling bull on that one. I literally do not believe that the ONLY way to contact a service desk in a modern company is to email. This is probably the access route which has been phased out the most over the years in favour of self-service portals and phone calls for the inevitable post holiday "I forgot my password" ticket.

As mentioned on another thread, where you've taken over a chat about the weekend, you're really making a mountain out of a molehill here.

Whilst I'm sure the OP is a troll. Last time I worked at IBM this was the case. The only way to access their helpdesk was via SameTime (IBM IM), they turned off the phone lines (to save money I guess), so when I got locked out of my laptop I ended up having to contact a colleague via LinkedIn (as the phone directory was only on the Intranet).

Massively short sighted, but it does happen.

[WTFH]

There should always be non digital option for everything as we have to consider non digital natives and the elderly.

You're working in IT as an IT consultant and you are demanding a non-IT solution for people who don't use IT to do your job?

[ladymuck]

Whilst I'm sure the OP is a troll. Last time I worked at IBM this was the case. The only way to access their helpdesk was via SameTime (IBM IM), they turned off the phone lines (to save money I guess), so when I got locked out of my laptop I ended up having to contact a colleague via LinkedIn (as the phone directory was only on the Intranet).

Massively short sighted, but it does happen.

How recently was that?

[ladymuck]

Also I can report that the service desk has replied to my email and they will reset 2FA so I can set up with new device

How did you manage to email them if the only means of contact is through secure company email that you can't access?

[Baddish]

How did you manage to email them if the only means of contact is through secure company email that you can't access?

I texted my colleague and he sent email on my behalf and copy me in

[ladymuck]

I texted my colleague and he sent email on my behalf and copy me in

But your phone doesn't work?

[Baddish]

But your phone doesn't work?

Not on my phone