[call for action] IB is forcing 2FA

Why not just use VNC? There's VNC clients for iOS. TeamViewer is unnecessary.

 

Also, if you run IBCAlpha to auto-login, I suppose you don't need any remote connection to the machine, just auth through the phone app.

 

I wasn't aware of this and Teamviewer works for me.

 

I'm still using IBC to login each morning (fully automated and w/TWS 10.18)...did they change something and only roll it out to certain users?

 

It's not effective immediately. Seems also you need to 2FA login only once per week.

 

Yep, understood. Was wondering about his saying they “already” made daily login impossible.

 

My 2FA is a plastic card IB sent me 20 years ago. It's a challenge-response with 224 codes on it.

 

This is no longer available. Only options are the temporary cellular MSG which almost never work timely, or the sketchy mobile app.

 

That's dumb on IB's part. Simple is best.

 

When I did my weekly login yesterday I was offered the choice of app, gold card or white card. But maybe that's because I already have the cards.

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