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Originally Posted by Russic
I'm trying to think of what would happen if somebody got into my google account. I try hard to ensure there is no sensitive information in there. I suppose other people may have emailed me things in the past that they shouldn't have, but I don't see anything dangerous personally.
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1) Search email to see if there's any emails from any financial institutions, investment brokerages, facebook, paypal, etc etc.
2) Go to previously found sites, click "I forgot my password, email it to me"
3) Get password, login.
If you don't have any signups for other sites, or use unique email addresses for each one, or other stuff then it might not be an issue, but for some getting access to email could turn bad fast.
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Originally Posted by Crazy Bacon Legs
What I really do not like about this is the necessity to give my home phone number or my cell phone number to Google. What does that have to do with email?
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It gives them a 2nd way to authenticate your identity. That's the whole point behind 2 step authentication.. if someone cracks your password so they can steal your identity and sell it to someone so they can get fake credit cards to buy drugs or whatever (a typical scenario), they won't have access to your sms or your home phone so the 2 step authentication will fail.
If you don't need that level of security on your email, you don't need this.
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Originally Posted by Crazy Bacon Legs
I understand the sentiment, but part of the reason I like services like gmail is that I can have an email address with absolutely no ties to my real life.
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Then this wouldn't matter to you. Some people have their work email through Google and have company info in their emails, so this would be important.
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Originally Posted by Crazy Bacon Legs
Also, good for security, PITA for quickly getting stuff done.
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That's always how it is with security, it's a tradeoff.