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Re:Gmail 2FA causes the homeless to permanently lose access ... by xani_ on Friday October 07, 2022 @06:28PM (#33127625)
Or just let people to disable 2FA. That's simplest and easiest solution. Slap a red warning label if you need to.
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Re:Gmail 2FA causes the homeless to permanently lose access ... by fragmede on Friday October 07, 2022 @07:05PM (#33128041)
For better or worse, I can’t set my password to be “password” or any other number of weak words, and also need a number and symbol. Same principle in practice here.
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Re:Gmail 2FA causes the homeless to permanently lose access ... by crooked-v on Friday October 07, 2022 @07:35PM (#33128286)
It's realistic to expect people to remember a difficult password eventually. It's not realistic to expect them to recover the SIM card from a phone that was stolen from them in the middle of the night and pawned for drugs or broken down into parts.
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Re:Gmail 2FA causes the homeless to permanently lose access ... by CyberDildonics on Friday October 07, 2022 @08:25PM (#33128622)
Why would a strong password and needing an entirely different communication channel be the same thing? That's like saying walking to work and needing to drive a car to work are the same thing.
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Re:Gmail 2FA causes the homeless to permanently lose access ... by jonas21 on Friday October 07, 2022 @08:36PM (#33128698)
You mean like this?

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/1064203?hl=en

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