Logging in from purchase on a vendor's site using KDE/Plasma desktop, Firefox browser: I can never get an authentication code via SMS message. Something **bleep** up, usually code jockys sans proper design by an advanced-degreed computer scientist with engineering training who knows how to sweat the details and use internationally-accepted HTML coding standards. I already gave up my user name and password; further authentification schemes are an impediment to business productivity delaying checkout from another site. First the flawed design tries and fails to send an SMS message, so my valuable time is wasted awaiting an email message after opening an email program in another virtual desktop, then waiting for all the other new messages to download, hunting down a message from PayPal, then copy/paste the secret code into the superfluous second login screen before I can proceed to finish checking out a purchase made five minutes earlier before that window times out. If you are so scared of getting hacked, hire an experienced Ethical Hacker who knows how to protect your vulnerable code which for reasons which escape me lacks any kind of armour whatsoever. A retired corporate executive vice president, operations, suggest tossing out your gaggle of code jockys and pay the extra dollars necessary to attract a computer scientist with a masters degree and decades of experience in software design. John [removed], Vice President Texmark Corporation, once told me: "Always look at the best, then back down to what you can afford." I added strive for perfection; when you miss that mark, you can accept excellence. If you strive for mediocrity and fall short, you end up with failure, which is never an option. I learned such world-class customer service from Zenith Data Corporation when I ran their southwestern regional computer monitor repair depot. Don't let some fool try to justify their salary by punishing your customers, for you risk sending them to a quicker, easier payment option. Me, I'd rather bypass Paypal altogether and pay directly than hassle with having to log in twice. Why bother with name/password authentication at all, why not just go directly to the login code?
