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When MFA first arrived, Authy became my tool of choice for codes. Over time the quality of the app fell off a cliff, particularly after Twilio bought it. Managing it became a burden and the UI carried a strong sense that nobody involved cared. It also bugged me that my 2FA codes lived somewhere I couldn't get at from the desktop. I had over 50 codes in there. Moving them by hand was never going to happen, so I kicked the can down the road for years. Then it occurred to me. Could I get Claude Code to do the migration for me? 1Password has a CLI, and Authy should let me export the underlying secret that generates the codes. Turns out Authy removed the export feature at some point. How convenient. Talk about locking users in. So I posed the problem to Claude and asked whether, with my iPhone connected to my Mac, it could go and find the file on the phone. It had a better idea. Set up a MITM proxy for iOS Run the server on my Mac All Authy traffic now went through something I controlled.…

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