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Microsoft Authenticator might exclude GrapheneOS in the future due to root detection (piunikaweb.com)

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[–] kyub@discuss.tchncs.de 57 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (8 children)

Use Aegis.

The MS Authenticator contains analytics & telemetry & way too many permissions and should not be used: https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.azure.authenticator/latest/ (it looks more like a scam than legitimate, but that's exactly what Microslop is in 2026...)

For comparison, Aegis is a legitimate app that only does what it should do: https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.beemdevelopment.aegis/latest/#permissions

Any other authenticator also works with any MS service so there's no reason at all to use the MS Authenticator unless you like handing over more data to MS for no reason. EDIT: According to comments, your company might have the option to enforce usage of MS Authenticator only. But this doesn't seem to be the default, at least in Germany where I've heard from 2 sources that they can use any authenticator app for M365 for example.

By the way, Graphene OS is NOT rooted, but what does truth or sane app behavior even mean anymore for Microslop in 2026... Just stop using that garbage.

[–] fluckx@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Agree for personal use.

Professionally I've had situations where Ms authenticator was the only option because the only 2FA they allow is push notifications on the authenticator app. :(

I even used freeotp+ for my ORG 2FA and aegis for my personal so I could easily keep them split ( and you can export / securely store the backups somewhere ).

Time to get corps to ditch Microsoft >.>

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Professionally I’ve had situations where Ms authenticator was the only option because the only 2FA they allow is push notifications on the authenticator app.

If a company requires me to install specific apps that may or may not work on my device, I expect that company to provide me with a device that can be set up for their stuff.

I've run two separate phones for nearly 15 years now: my personal phone, and a work-issued phone. The work phone is turned off and left on my night stand as soon as I get home, and only turned on again when I'm getting ready to go back to work. I don't carry it 24/7 as some have been led to believe, for some reason. It's really nice to have that separation. And work pays for it.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 4 days ago

My employer is government so they do provide an alternative. If you can't use Microsoft authenticator, you can get an authentication phone call

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[–] besbin@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 days ago

We do need to get corps to move away from closed source protocols like MS, Google, Meta and others push notifications though. Those are not in anyway safer and are just basically trap to force people to use their apps

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[–] shaggyb@lemmy.world 52 points 6 days ago (5 children)

That's fine.

Any job that wants you to use certain software can provide a device it'll run on for you.

[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 6 days ago

Amen to that. Even if your computers will run it, provide the device. I'm not installing shit on my home computers.

My job has suggested it to me. I say "you know how all these computers run Windows?" They nod. "Mine doesn't. It's a Mac." That usually shuts them up. Never mind that most of what we run will, in fact, run on a Mac, and there's very little a shitty Wintel box mass produced for the enterprise can do that my Mac can't do. I mean, I can run Deus Ex natively on the work computer, if I wanna catch hell for it. (But it would be fucking hilarious, especially if I'm at the part where JC Denton hands in his "resignation.")

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[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 17 points 6 days ago

Fuck em. I just got grapheneOS and I advised my workplace we will need a workaround for authenticator.

[–] arcine@jlai.lu 22 points 6 days ago (2 children)

That doesn't make sense to me, afaiu :

GrapheneOS is NOT rooted by default, and they explicit recommend NOT to do it, because it invalidates a huge part of their privacy guarantees.

[–] Honytawk@feddit.nl 11 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Yeah, and Microsoft policy is just about rooted phones.

There isn't any reason to mention GrapheneOS, unless it is to generate unwarranted outrage.

Which seems to be working on a lot of folk on here.

[–] AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

Well it could just be part of the collective corporate alliance that will always do anything they can to make any kind of freedom cost more for everyone. GrapheneOS is taking your freedom and not feeding on the corporate-issued fodder, and well, they don’t like that. So this is just one more small difficulty added to that choice.

This kind of thing is only the beginning. It won’t be long before absolutely nothing will work on any freedom-oriented OS, software, hardware etc.

Some fires need to start, and soon.

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[–] cmhe@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

privacy guarantees

security guarantees, not privacy guarantees.

With root you can actually control what kind of things each app does and stores, and check what data it transmits to remote servers. But it also breaks/weakens the android security model, where apps can do, store or transmit stuff protected from the eyes of the user of the phone.

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[–] Reygle@lemmy.world 18 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Oh no

Anyway

Microslop authenticator might not work for my zero Microslop accounts, lack of Microslop sloperating system, OR their piece of shit cloud platform that I refuse to touch?

WHAT WILL I DO

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago (5 children)

I mean...okay?

I have a work phone for this exact reason.

work phone stays on my desk. I have removed the microphones. I turn it on at the start of every day, and turn it off at the end of every day.

good luck with that plan Microslop. looks like Microslop is trending too!

1000003153

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[–] gravitas@pie.gravitywell.xyz 21 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Interesting considering grapheneOS does not actually support rooting.

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 23 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

This is the thing that kills me about the corporate anti-GrapheneOS sentiment. It is 100% a more secure phone, and yet every measure they implement against it cites security as a reason. Total and absolute bullshit.

[–] brax@sh.itjust.works 10 points 6 days ago

I mean, they argue against rooted phones as a security reason, but my rooted phones used to be much more secure than they were when they were stock.

Just more of the same idiots ruining shit for everybody.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

Because it isn't really about security. It is about control.

[–] Honytawk@feddit.nl 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Which means the entire article is bullshit.

It literally states that Microsoft changes its policy to not allow rooted devices. So GrapheneOS has nothing to worry. It doesn't affect them. Why does the article mention it then at all?

Seems like a clickbait article

[–] hersh@literature.cafe 3 points 6 days ago

Which means the entire article is bullshit.

Not necessarily. It could just be that Microsoft's "root" detection is misnamed or poorly implemented. They would not be alone in either case.

[–] absquatulate@lemmy.world 19 points 6 days ago (9 children)

This is what I fear will happen to GOS on Motos. Google decides to mark them as rooted so buh-bye banking apps and others that require a "secure" os.

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 16 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Except they're not rooted - GOS devs don't even approve of root usage

[–] absquatulate@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It doesn't matter if they are or not. Google can deem them modified or not secure devices and they can do fuck all about it.

[–] e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 6 days ago (3 children)

The difference being that Motorola is a well established device manufacturer and not just a community project with minimal funding. Google using play integrity to exclude a competitor could be very easily seen as an abuse of market power and they already have problems with antitrust laws.

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[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 4 days ago

They check through Google Play services, Graphene has play services in a sandbox, it can't see enough to report the security of the device accurately

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[–] picnic@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

Now this is shitty. Our company allows only authentication with the app, and I was really happy to give up the shitty phone they offered and just carry one.

I saw the news earlier this or last week, but as my grapheneos is not rooted, didnt think much of it.

[–] dorumon@lemmy.cafe 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Honestly thank you for posting this. Lest I would've lost my Google and Microslop account.

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[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 6 days ago

Cool, the fewer people using Microslop apps, the better.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 6 points 6 days ago

That's cool. Guess my company is going to have to send me a new phone.

[–] trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtf 5 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Oh this is some bullshit. Anyone know of a decent FOSS(ish) alternative?

[–] eleitl@lemmy.zip 23 points 6 days ago (5 children)

I've heard Aegis being mentioned.

[–] WhyAUsername_1@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

I have been usingnit for Ages, haven't had a problem.

[–] vpklotar@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Been using it for years. No issues at all.

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[–] halfsak@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago

Aegis

[–] Thallium_X@feddit.org 4 points 6 days ago

Ente Auth

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