#DecRecs Day 20 - Password Management and 2FA
I've been using Bitwarden as my password manager since 2021. I recommend that any student that is using an .edu email that they might lose access to in the future use a manager to keep track of accounts that they might need to change access from. I periodically go through my passwords and sort them into folders, descriptive titles, and delete unused accounts.
I recently switched to Ente Auth as my 2FA. I thought that I *needed* to always have Google and Microsoft's proprietary authentication apps - turns out I was able to add them to a different service super easily. Ente is multi-platform so it doesn't have to be only on your phone. Now if I could only get Steam to let me use a different app...
I find that these were great free options and have been easy to use. Both of these have a 0 data policy so if you lose access to your account, that's it- they can't restore it for you because they literally don't have that data. It's important to think about how you might want to back it up outside of the service.
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