I still have the majority of the older phones
Mrs. Haus
and I have retired over the last 10-12 years in a drawer in my desk and most still work. I keep one without a sim in it in my trunk, since if I'm on a roadtrip and someone steals my phone or there's an emergency, you can still make 911 calls on a phone without a sim.
that phone already exists, and has for many years
How would people know I’m better than them if I used that though?
No, you're missing it, having a flip phone is the protection against this. Anytime some mark of the beast loving asshole tries to get me to download an MFA app I can just hold up my phone and say "sorry, you'll need to find another option".
I had an employee try the "i have a dumb phone so i cant download an MFA" schtick. I smiled and said ok, here is your company assigned cellphone. I'll cancel your cell phone allowance.
Yeah, that worked when I was a poor grunt employee too. Got away with it for almost 4 years. Now that I'm lead infrastructure architect for 5+ F500 clients, not gonna fly. I must never be without my phone, must have full access to everything I could possibly need to solve any problem at all times, which means being able to authenticate to any device, host, VM or application in our public or private cloud infrastructure, and must never be more than 15 minutes away from my computer.
I wasn't forced, I could have kept avoiding responsibility. That's my point.
I call bullshit on any architect required to directly maintain infrastructure. Inventor please.
Architects where I work do all the time. They're the last point of escalation
Well... He tried to weasel out of my MFA policy and was summarily slapped down so.. yeah.
Right, I'm the top of the escalation path, but the only idiot that actually picks up their phone, which ends up making me the first person called instead of the last. :/
In my org as a pre-sale engineering/architectural resource I'm usually the person who does the initial design, and I'm considered in the path of escalation. Also it's that way because I handle what are called "strategic" tier customers and if they aren't happy I don't make my money for the year. So I also have to answer when the phone rings...
I, unfortunately, am also in the "person who will actually pick up the phone" position. I feel this pain. And have the scars from weekends lost due to some end user screwing a pooch then pulling the ripcord for the weekend on a Friday afternoon.
