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Re: gmail security is a joke


From: Rafael Possamai <rafael () gav ufsc br>
Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 08:27:18 -0500

You can also register a U2F key.

On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 3:17 AM, <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:

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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