2 Factor Authentication can be broken up like this:
- Something you have
- Something you know
The "something you have" can be anything in your possession, this could be
hard things like a U2F
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_2nd_Factor> device, a
smartphone, or soft things like a phone number or an email address.
The "something you know" is something that can be stored inside your head,
which is almost always a password or pin number of some kind.
So since the mobile app (or any mobile app for that matter) still requires
something you have and something you know, it is still 2 factors.
See more:
On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 6:10 AM, Josephine Lim <josephinelim86(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi Daniel,
Happy to hear that you like the new features! :)
Re: 2FA logins, that is an interesting question! However, it is not one
that is unique to our app, for if you log in to your 2FA-enabled Wikimedia
account on your mobile phone's browser, both factors can also be on the
same mobile device. ;) Perhaps someone more well-versed in
security/authentication than I am could be better placed to answer that
question.
Point noted re: the CCs, thanks!
Best regards,
Josephine
On 2 May 2018 at 06:10, <wikitech-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:
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Date: Tue, 1 May 2018 13:10:15 -0700
From: Daniel Zahn <dzahn(a)wikimedia.org>
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Commons app - version 2.7 release
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- New "Nearby places that need
pictures" UI with direct uploads (and
associated category suggestions) -
Woohoo. That's exactly what i was always missing and was so great about
the
old WikiLovesMonuments app.
Thank you very much!
Enabled two-factor authentication login
Also very nice, just wondering what the second factor is on mobile,
since
usually that's a mobile app as well. Does
that still make it 2 factors?
P.S. Crossposting to multiple mailing lists at once with CC: can be
tricky,
maybe better send a separate mail to each.
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