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Yeah, that seems a little myopic. I've worked at more places without YubiKeys than with them.

Edit: To be clear, I've had plenty of _other_ 2FA devices.

Used to have some (actually, I still do, in a drawer) but gave up on them several years ago after random mysterious failures - just going dead after a few months.

I hope for their customers' sakes they have solved their reliability problem.

My experience is quite contrary to yours - those things are indestructible... Mine even survived a machine wash.

I have one that I had on my keyring for over a year, including during a swim in the ocean (I forgot I had it on me). It still works. Perhaps you got a bad batch?

I have four. One is clearly insufficient, you need a backup.

Agreed - feel like I rarely see any YubiKeys outside of my coworkers' laptops.

Physical security tokens are both as old as dirt and the hot new replacement for passwords.