Apparently they’re called backup codes now. I could swear they used to be called airplane codes (because they’re offline ig). It’s just some randomly generated 8-digit codes.
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JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 3 weeks agoAirplane codes? Was that an autocorrect for API?
MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
unmagical@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
No. When you enable 2FA Google gives you about 10 backup codes that will always work regardless of if you have access to your authenticator app.