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A crowd-sourced guide to help techs help their non-tech spouses / partners / parents / kids when we are at the end-of-life
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How to use MFA and security tokens #8

Open pagerwho opened 2 years ago

pagerwho commented 2 years ago

Included in the doc should be a walkthrough for how to access MFA on various phones. How to recover MFA tokens using Authenticator apps, I recommend Microsoft’s Authenticator as it has cloud backup. Beyond the MFA, how do you access more hardened accounts like a password vault or critical account where security keys are used. Yubikeys are pretty great, but aren’t that easy to figure out for the non tech.

How do you access legacy accounts? Where are the powers of attorney (us specific) and how do you use them? What insurance agents and financial advisers need to be contacted?

potatoqualitee commented 2 years ago

Hmm, that is actually an argument against yubikey for me 🤔 probably not a good position to hold lol.

I'm torn about the MFA walkthru. Lu knows how to use MFA because we've made it a part of her online life. So just mentioning both of the apps I use (authy and ms authenticator) covers it for us.

For the rest of it, I told her to just login as me. She did mention, btw, that in some places, if you say "Give my servers to Brandon" in a will, it'll take way longer for Brandon to get those servers because it has to go through the courts. Interesting to think about.