Not quite the same as two factor auth (almost the opposite in fact), but I was extremely annoyed when gmail started relentlessly asking me to add a backup email address for password resets. Had the author not had an insecure backup email address, this wouldn't have happened either. Of all the passwords I'm likely to forget, gmail ranks near the bottom. The password to login to who knows where to get the gmail recovery email? The top.
That's absolutely true. I was horrified last week when I discovered my Gmail account (with a unique 30-character long password, 2-factor enabled, NEVER used unless on my MacBook at my house) had a "backup" email address to my Yahoo account from 8 years ago, with the nice password '1123581321'. I could've killed myself.
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Not quite the same as two factor auth (almost the opposite in fact), but I was extremely annoyed when gmail started relentlessly asking me to add a backup email address for password resets. Had the author not had an insecure backup email address, this wouldn't have happened either. Of all the passwords I'm likely to forget, gmail ranks near the bottom. The password to login to who knows where to get the gmail recovery email? The top.
That's absolutely true. I was horrified last week when I discovered my Gmail account (with a unique 30-character long password, 2-factor enabled, NEVER used unless on my MacBook at my house) had a "backup" email address to my Yahoo account from 8 years ago, with the nice password '1123581321'. I could've killed myself.
That's amazing. I've got the same combination on my luggage.