Denny BorsboomMy institution requires me to login with 2-step verification for everything. I estimate I do this at least 10 times a day. At one minute per login (a conservative estimate, given how often the process fails) this equals ~40 hours a year. That is a full week of work. I could write a small paper or teach a course in that time. Summing the costs over all university personnel, the annual tax money spent to have people logging into university systems must be amazing. Is anyone budgeting this?
João Guassi Moreira@dennyborsboom Surprised there's no option to 'remember your log-in' on a given device for h hours. Really useful to have here at UCLA
@jguassimoreira we have two step verification. So after I enter login details, the system calls my phone. Then I have to pick my phone up, listen to the microsoft sign in system lady, and press #. Sometimes I then have to login once more. Welcome to the new digital safety standards. If your university doesn’t do this yet, it’s probably just a matter of time.
Mathijs Deen@dennyborsboom @jguassimoreira my institution (Leiden) has this as well, even for webmail. So annoying. However, we can use Lastpass or Microsoft Authenticator, which seems slightly faster than the whole phone call procedure.
Noémi K. Schuurman@dennyborsboom At UU we have this too, also for students, which means they sometimes have to repeatedly grab their phones during seminars (after which some of them are immediately distracted by their notifications). At some Dutch universities they remember the authentication longer, for example that you only have to do it for each service weekly.