Unique characters in password - good or bad?

[Johani (Joe)]

Yeah, that’s a fair point

[michaeld (Michael - DiscourseHosting.com)]

I don’t like to trust third-parties - especially Google, Facebook, etc - in property security solutions. I don’t like to install extra (black boxed) apps

Just for the record: Google Authenticator implements an algorithm that is a public standard.

[fefrei (Felix Freiberger)]

Note that Google Authenticator is just one example – there is a standard behind that called TOTP and all these Authenticator apps are compatible. Also, Google Authenticator does not contact Google servers, it’s entirely offline.

Edit: Ninja’ed by @michaeld