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WeedleTLiar on scored.co
10 days ago22 points(+0/-0/+22Score on mirror)1 child
It's worse than that. Say you go ahead and give google your number, what happens if someone steals your phone?
If you logged into your e-mail on your phone, it means the thief has access to your account and you don't. You can't even change the password without the phone, but with the phone you can read and send e-mail without needing the password.
They've actually created a new security vulnerability because of this phone requirement.
2FA is horrible. I actually lost access to my old Yahoo mail which means I lost access to Facebook because both set up my account to require 2 factor authentication but I did not have anything set up for the Yahoo mail so they just instituted it without me having a way to access specify so there was nothing to send the 2FA to so I got locked out because they instituted it anyway.
If you logged into your e-mail on your phone, it means the thief has access to your account and you don't. You can't even change the password without the phone, but with the phone you can read and send e-mail without needing the password.
They've actually created a new security vulnerability because of this phone requirement.
It's time for google to die.