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The problem with 2FA for me is that I am underground for a good part of my day, without reception.

I use google voice to get notified of calls and voicemails so I can be fairly responsive, but obviously using another service that can be accessed in multiple places defeats the point, especially when owned by the same people.

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You don't need reception for 2FA; Google Authenticator and FreeOTP work fine even in airplane mode, if you have your phone / tablet with you.

Yeah, good luck on a windows phone.

If there is no existing offline OTP authenticator for Windows phone, FreeOTP is open-source. Perhaps someone will port it over: https://fedorahosted.org/freeotp/

Microsoft Authenticator works just fine with GMail :)

Confirmed! Though I had to go outside to get the initial pass code via SMS.

It does not seem like twitter supports this authenticator.

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