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Re:Gmail – some users being signed out of their accounts une... by dawnerd on Friday February 24, 2017 @01:30AM (#13721539)
Fear might be shared email/passwords since thats really common.
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Re:Gmail – some users being signed out of their accounts une... by wapz on Friday February 24, 2017 @02:27AM (#13721748)
What's the fear? Aren't all passwords encrypted on the server side?
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Re:Gmail – some users being signed out of their accounts une... by pshc on Friday February 24, 2017 @02:43AM (#13721805)
But if an in-transit plaintext password is leaked by CloudFlare, server-side encryption is irrelevant.

(... that said, it's not like revoking sessions would impede a password-holding adversary...)

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Re:Gmail – some users being signed out of their accounts une... by amatriain on Friday February 24, 2017 @06:19AM (#13722676)
It would for users that have 2FA enabled.
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