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Re:Face ID, Touch ID, No ID, PINs and Pragmatic Security by hellofunk on Thursday September 14, 2017 @07:47AM (#15246951)
Explain? You read a page about two-step and say that explains why no one has enabled it? You claim to have tech knowledge, but are not able to turn on this simple security setting (or even know it exists, despite that it's listed very clearly in your Dropbox settings page)?

I use two-factor/two-step verification on every single service I have, including all social media accounts, email accounts, etc. Most major services/sites these days provide it. The way Dropbox does it is no different than any others; it takes 2 minutes to set it up. What did you find difficult about it?

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Re:Face ID, Touch ID, No ID, PINs and Pragmatic Security by woogley on Thursday September 14, 2017 @09:53AM (#15247984)
> You claim to have tech knowledge, but are not able to turn on this simple security setting

GP didn't say _they_ can't enable it after reading the help page. I think they are implying that the very detailed help page looks long and complicated to a non-techie (who might not even understand the benefit of going through such a hurdle in the first place).

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Re:Face ID, Touch ID, No ID, PINs and Pragmatic Security by Angostura on Monday September 18, 2017 @10:43AM (#15276361)
> Before enabling two-step verification, you'll receive ten 8-digit backup codes. It is very important that you write these codes down and store them somewhere safe.

Do any of your other systems handle recovery like that?

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