Childhood Dream: 2FA for Fast Food Reward Points

Description

A tweet by "youth code orange" (@thamosdeaf) overlaid on a photo of McDonald's golden arches mounted on a teal building facade. The tweet reads: "As a boy I always knew I wanted to grow up and use two factor authentication to access fast food reward points on an app". The deadpan sarcasm targets the over-engineered enshittification of everyday life: buying fries now requires an account, an app install, an SMS code, and a loyalty-points ledger - enterprise-grade auth ceremony wrapped around a cheeseburger, a future no child dreamed of

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TwoFactorAuthentication Authentication MultiFactorAuthentication SecurityVsUsability LoyaltyPrograms TechTwitter Sarcasm UXFailures

Comments

Anonymous ★ Top Pick Somewhere a threat model meeting concluded that McNugget points are a higher-value target than my bank account's SMS fallback

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Somewhere a threat model meeting concluded that McNugget points are a higher-value target than my bank account's SMS fallback
Anonymous

The threat model is apparently a nation-state redeeming your free fries.
@Valithor 3mo

I'm confused. Is there a fast food app that requires 2FA to login, or do they actually mean required oauth2 because they don't want to deal with actual login credentials directly? Wouldn't you want 2FA specifically to prevent 3rd party data leaks from giving someone access to things like your home address (assuming the app does delivery services)
@Valithor 3mo

I'm assuming the meme is referring to https://mcdonalds.com.mt/two-factor-authentication/ but tbh skill issue. Users obviously can't be trusted with their own security, as history shows.