Please turn on two-factor authentication

Re:Please turn on two-factor authentication by parfe on Tuesday August 07, 2012 @10:36AM (#4350253)

>Google 2-step auth is way too hard to use and for how hard it is to use it doesn't provide all that much protection. It protects against phishing (mostly) but not against someone who has your phone. Malicious ex-girlfriend trying to do you harm? Google 2-factor won't help you a bit as long as at some point she had access to your phone.

Can we not upvote bullshit? He's vocally ignorant. The one time key generator is useless without the password. For his situation to be an issue he must have already have given her the password.

I don't think promoting security advice from someone who gives out his plaintext password is the least bit responsible.

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Re:Please turn on two-factor authentication by petenixey on Tuesday August 07, 2012 @10:39AM (#4350270)

How would you reset your password on your Google account Parfe?

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Re:Please turn on two-factor authentication by petenixey on Tuesday August 07, 2012 @10:49AM (#4350329)

  >   A reset link that gets sent to a secondary account that my phone doesn't have access to with a   
  >  unique password stored in a PGP encrypted file with a nice long passphrase only known to me.
  >  My security question has a gibberish answer.

How do you think the average person resets their password? I'm not talking about 2-factor auth as it applies to someone who keeps a PGP encrypted file on their machine I'm talking about it as it applies to the type of person who complains they can't log into Facebook through this page:

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_wants_to_be_yo...

I'll guarantee they don't have a firewalled second account.

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Re:Please turn on two-factor authentication by parfe on Tuesday August 07, 2012 @10:53AM (#4350345)

Next time you ask a question don't act like the answer doesn't count just because it doesn't fit your stupid narrative. If you wanted to talk about how you think average people are too stupid to use 2-factor auth then just say it.

Your post is buried and won't harm others. Move on.

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Re:Please turn on two-factor authentication by parfe on Tuesday August 07, 2012 @10:44AM (#4350299)

A reset link that gets sent to a secondary account that my phone doesn't have access to with a unique password stored in a PGP encrypted file with a nice long passphrase only known to me.

My security question has a gibberish answer.

Not rocket science.

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