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Re:Gmail as a threat to data access: forced 2-factor login, ... by alar44 on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @08:35PM (#29803773)
This is hilarious. Someone was trying to take over your account and you're pissed at Google. Turning on MFA and attaching it to the threat actors device is the first step in ransoming your account.

Get a clue and use MFA for everything. It's 2021 and you're on a tech site for crying out loud...

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Re:Gmail as a threat to data access: forced 2-factor login, ... by reactspa on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @03:52PM (#29814781)
> This is hilarious

Glad to hear you find it funny.

> Someone was trying to take over your account

Nope. If you read the original post again, you'll find out that "I" was trying to log into it.

> use MFA for everything

I would love to use MFA for this particular secondary email account. If only Gmail lets me log-into it so I can enable it.

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