Bad News: Two-Factor Authentication Pioneer YubiKey Drops Open Source PGP For Proprietary Version

Posted by BernardSwiss on May 19, 2016 8:53 AM EDT
Techdirt; By Mike Masnick
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By now, hopefully, you've turned on multi-factor authentication on various social media/email accounts, where they either text you an extra code or you have an app like Authy that supplies you with an extra code. But another super handy mutli-factor authentication system is the YubiKey setup, which is a little USB key with a finger sensor. It's basically a bit of hardware that you can keep on you, which blocks anyone else from logging into your accounts if they don't have it.

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