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Re: gmail security is a joke


From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 04:17:34 -0400

On Wed, 27 May 2015 09:13:47 +0530, Anil Kumar said:
that link, since I have two-step verification set up, I was presented
with a demand for a number provided by the Google Authenticator
app on my phone. I provided that number and only then was I allowed
to reset the password.

And you have to pre-register the phone number.

Sounds about as secure as you're going to get when trying to scale to 10
digits of users....

And as I said earlier - if your threat model involves needing more security
than that, you have bigger problems.. :)

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