Maybe for my bank account. Maybe for my superannuation, my insurance, my tax records. Maybe then, a second layer of digital security would seem appropriate. But in all other contexts this madness needs to stop.
Let me access my email!!!!! Let me access my fucking Canvas classrooms. Let me access bloody google docs without needing immediate access to my mobile phone. Let me do it!!!!!
If there is a hacker out there, hiding in the shadows, waiting to pounce on my shitty poetry, my football registration code, or the grading of my most recent assignment, I could not give less of a shit. I wish them luck. Fight the power. Nobody wants this.
SPECIFICALLY, when i need to access websites and materials to complete university work, the fact that I am forced to have my mobile phone around me to do so– a pocket dementor which soupifies my brain and drinks it through my eyeballs– is dumb as fuck.
Sometimes, my phone might be dead. Perhaps that is the case more than I would like. Is that my fault? Yes. But the fact that my punishment for that is the denail of access to my university materials is braindead, when the alleged purpose of two-factor authentication is to help students. Two factor authentication has harmed more students than it has ever helped.
Please, listen to the people. Fuck Okta. Okta out. Thank you.
Zinger! 
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