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Re:SIM swap horror story: I've lost decades of data and Goog... by abraham on Monday June 17, 2019 @01:12PM (#20205104)
You can get extra security from Google for free. https://landing.google.com/advancedprotection/
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Re:SIM swap horror story: I've lost decades of data and Goog... by graeme on Monday June 17, 2019 @02:21PM (#20205901)
Patio11 just had an automated loss of access on his phone when enrolling. Lack of support hurts there too.

https://mobile.twitter.com/patio11/status/114040469625693798...

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Re:SIM swap horror story: I've lost decades of data and Goog... by patio11 on Monday June 17, 2019 @07:10PM (#20208217)
This was quite unfun. (Fixed now, after I blackboxed what the actual problem was. Some Googlers are looking into the docs/error messages to fix that half.)
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Re:SIM swap horror story: I've lost decades of data and Goog... by couchridr on Monday June 17, 2019 @05:07PM (#20207395)
Not exactly free, because you must buy a couple of hardware tokens. Fifty dollars when bought from google. But free besides that.
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