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The list of companies offering two-factor authentication continues to grow – hooray! This weekend WordPress joined the growing ranks<\/a> of companies offering better protection to their customers by adding the option for people to add a 2nd factor of authentication. It bears mentioning, as you stand poised and ready to put your second authentication step into action, the difference between two-step and two-factor authentication<\/a>.<\/p>\n As a little reminder, a “factor” in authentication is generally considered to be one of 3 things:<\/p>\n WordPress’s new option lets you choose from having a code sent through an app or via SMS to your phone. Since you could theoretically be accessing your blog through your phone, this is why it’s called “two-step” authentication rather than “two-factor” authentication. This sort of thing blurs the line a bit for being true two-factor authentication, since it does not force you to use a separate device. But them’s the breaks when you’re dealing with computing “in the cloud” – it would be impractical to send millions of customers a separate dongle, for instance. Customers can use any number of different devices to access Google, Apple ID, or WordPress, from any number of locations. True two-factor authentication is not something we’re likely to see in common use for the foreseeable future. But two-step authentication is still a definite improvement over single-step authentication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The list of companies offering two-factor authentication continues to grow – hooray! This weekend WordPress joined the growing ranks of companies offering better protection to their customers by adding the option for people to add a 2nd factor of authentication. It bears mentioning, as you stand poised and ready to put your second authentication step […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":13437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[325,347],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n