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Re:The closest I've ever come to falling for a Gmail phishin... by jimmaswell on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @02:05PM (#13376548)
I feel like all these kinds of extra security burdens aren't worth it. If you could quantify and add up all the inconvenience caused by extra security past simple password logins, affecting all users always, it would surely be more than what would have been caused by the attacks prevented, temporarily affecting a few users.
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Re:The closest I've ever come to falling for a Gmail phishin... by jdavis703 on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @02:08PM (#13376572)
What if they're able to comprise a person who works in HR who probably has copies of passports, social security numbers and other highly-sensitive PII in their email inbox? The fact is people send around all kinds of sensitive information via email, including IT/engineering who probably has discussions about various security holes they're working on patching.
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