niver - Slashdot User

Comment Re:LOL Painting as a metaphor for coding (Score 1) 56

by niver on Sunday January 15, 2023 @12:41PM (#63210416) Attached to: GitHub Copilot Labs Add Photoshop-Style 'Brushes' for ML-Powered Code Modifying

You're lucky. The code I have to maintain looks like Andy Warhol's works.

Comment Re:Why doesn't literally every website require 2FA (Score 1) 83

by niver on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @12:54PM (#59129866) Attached to: Using Multi-Factor Authentication Blocks 99.9% of Account Hacks, Microsoft Says

Then every hacker will know my dog's maiden name and the first date who dumped me.

Using your dog's name is not 2FA. Real 2FA would be "something you know" and "something you have". Say, a password and a phone confirmation. Or a RF chip and a password. Or an OTP device, which arguably counts as 2FA by itself.

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