Why I Quit Using Google

Re:Why I Quit Using Google by xref on Saturday January 11, 2020 @06:54PM (#22023325)

For one, a personal domain is less secure than a gmail.com domain. There have been quite a few targeted hacks, like Mat Honan or any number of crypto-holders, where a personal domain was socially engineered to be transferred to a new registrar (or password reset on existing registrar) where the attacker controls the MX records, thus your email, thus your password resets.

It’s much harder to transfer gmail.com, office.com, etc

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Re:Why I Quit Using Google by deanmoriarty on Saturday January 11, 2020 @08:10PM (#22023683)

That’s something I’ve been worried about since I switched to a custom domain email address that I point to another mail service: I protect my registrar account with 2fa, but I still think that the chances of someone hacking via social engineering my DNS registrar (Gandi) or the MX provider are much higher than someone hacking my 2fa personal @gmail.com account. I might just be paranoid.

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