Duo Mobile 4+

I thought it would end up being another cumbersome addition to accessing our work network but, it is actually very seamless once it is set up. I actually like it way better than many I have to use because it not a situation where I have to receive a text and then type it in on the computer. Simply login the way you normally do and your Duo app will just ask if you want to give permission and it literally gives you two boxes like in those letters kids would write to someone they like asking if they wanted to go steady and at the bottom would be two boxes and they would say check yes or no! It pops up automatically so no need to open the app first. It is actually that easy, way more easy than working up the courage to write a love letter asking someone to be you boyfriend or girlfriend much less giving it too them and going’s crazy waiting for it to be returned with the right box checked!

Whenever I try to log on to anything using my university ID, I’m first rerouted to DuoMobile on my phone. “My phone?”, I think. “I love that!” So it’s always great to have the opportunity to drop whatever academic task I’m doing and just, like, *lose myself* on a subreddit directed to tricking goats.

In addition, I really enjoy that feeling I get knowing that I’m secure from Chinese and Russian government agents so that I can confidently offer up my data to *American* companies. What’s that I’m feeling? Not just safety, but *patriotism*.

Frankly, two-factor authentication isn’t enough. Whenever I try to teach, I want to have to open my phone, open my laptop, turn on my Google glasses, run back to my office computer, call my wife to use her computer, and then beg my son to drop his iPad for long enough to verify me. Bring on six-factor authentication!!!

I don’t write reviews, but I felt compelled to do so here. I work in IT and since we adopted DUO, it has proven to be effective and easy to use for the vast majority of users. The one’s that have problems are generally the ones that don’t know how to operate their devices, or they take issue with our policies because they have poor personal information security. These are exactly the people that force companies to adopt stricter security in the first place.

I cannot speak to the complaints of folks who choose to use it for accounts that are not connected to a work or school environment, but if you get a new phone or lose or damage your phone, of course it locks you out of everything. That’s what it’s designed to do.