gmail security is a joke

Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
Tue May 26 18:15:07 UTC 2015


On Tue, 26 May 2015 19:11:51 +0300, Saku Ytti said:

> > OTOH, recovery by receiving a token at a previously registered alternate email address
> > seems relatively secure to me and I wouldn???t want to opt out of that.
>
> It's probably machine sent in seconds or minute after request, so doing
> short-lived BGP hijack of MX might be reasonably easy way to get the email.

To be fair, if your e-mail address is high enough value that somebody is
willing to risk getting caught doing a BGP hijack, maybe you have bigger
problems to worry about.
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