Javier de la CuevaFeb 20

Actions speak louder than words.

I am unable to install EU Login app in my phone because I use LineageOS and not the Google Spy Android.

Thus, I cannot use the double factor authentication, mandatory from the 25-02-2026 on unless I tell Google.

A frontal attack to our #privacy.

Stupid, no?

@EUCommission

Show threadGiorgio Comai

@jdelacueva @EUCommission A couple of years ago, I complained to the portal's assistance service about this very issue, and this is the reply I got.

With SMS now not any more an option, we are really left only with FIDO2 keys.

It is unclear why they can't use established OTP standards compliant with many different platforms, and, if they really, *really* need to re-invent the wheel, why they must release their solution only through US-based platforms that come with debatable ToS.

Feb 21 at 4:19pmTuba
Show threadGiorgio ComaiMar 10
@jdelacueva @EUCommission oh, it just got even worse! now to enable 2FA the EU funding and tender portal forces you to provide an answer to three "security questions" to be chosen among the following. Absolutely mandatory, no way to skip. Why, oh, why, must this be so wrong in so many different ways?
Show threadJavier de la CuevaMar 10

@giocomai Thank you, Giorgo. I used another person phone, as I cannot be without access. When I read the questions I wondered what kind of mentality had who wrote them.

I do not have a favourite actor, musician of artist but various. I do not have a pet. I have a myriad of favourite books. I do not know which was my first car. Privacy holds me from writing my nickname, where did my parents meet, where was my first job. And, f...ing hell, in Spain women maintain their surname.

@EUCommission