Adding a phone number to your Google account can make it less secure

Re:Adding a phone number to your Google account can make it ... by emeidi on Friday October 21, 2016 @07:18AM (#12759482)

I stopped reading here: "While Bob didn’t have multi-factor authentication enabled"

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Re:Adding a phone number to your Google account can make it ... by claudius on Friday October 21, 2016 @07:23AM (#12759498)

You shouldn’t have. Google trusted the phone too much, using it instead of the user-supplied secrets to determine who was allowed to access the account. Whether or not the account used multi-factor authentication seems quite perfectly irrelevant?

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