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> 2) I'm surprised they chose to use Google Authenticator. The favourite in this space seems to be Authy; off the top of my head Cloudflare and DNSimple both use them. Any thoughts on the pros and cons?

Briefly looking at Authy, it seems they do make things reasonably easy. But the pro sides of Google Authenticator is that it's just an Open-Source app implementing open standards. It doesn't require any third parties or network communication to work, and you can add it even to unix logins or SSH.



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