gmail security is a joke

Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
Wed May 27 08:17:34 UTC 2015


On Wed, 27 May 2015 09:13:47 +0530, Anil Kumar said:
> that link, since I have two-step verification set up, I was presented
> with a demand for a number provided by the Google Authenticator
> app on my phone. I provided that number and only then was I allowed
> to reset the password.

And you have to pre-register the phone number.

Sounds about as secure as you're going to get when trying to scale to 10
digits of users....

And as I said earlier - if your threat model involves needing more security
than that, you have bigger problems.. :)
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