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Re:Gmail 2FA causes the homeless to permanently lose access ... by dmix on Friday October 07, 2022 @09:41AM (#33121144)
Yep, reducing standards for everyone in an attempt to help a small minority is also a growing trend in the west. Schools dumbing down so everyone gets A’s type of top level decision making.

Sometimes you have to make hard choices where some people get burned because the alternatives are worse. That doesn’t mean you don’t care.

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Re:Gmail 2FA causes the homeless to permanently lose access ... by paganel on Friday October 07, 2022 @09:58AM (#33121392)
> to help a small minority

In this case the people asking for 2FA are the "small minority", and the rest of us have to suffer through 2FA-authentication hell because of them.

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Re:Gmail 2FA causes the homeless to permanently lose access ... by judge2020 on Friday October 07, 2022 @10:21AM (#33121722)
> In this case the people asking for 2FA are the "small minority", and the rest of us have to suffer through 2FA-authentication hell because of them.

How many people don't like 2fa because they don't know about all the times it's saved them from total account takeover?

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Re:Gmail 2FA causes the homeless to permanently lose access ... by arubania2 on Friday October 07, 2022 @03:00PM (#33125521)
AKA https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preparedness_paradox
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