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nasredin on Dec 23, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: I got locked out of my Google account for a month

...And the IP you used to sign up... and the city for that IP in the geolocation database at that specific date... and the exact User Agent string... and the time zones... and...

Or maybe they should stop being idiots and allow people with strong passwords to... just use passwords to authenticate.

Maybe some type of "I know what I am doing, kindly fuck off Google" option.

dingo_bat on Dec 23, 2017 [–]

> Maybe some type of "I know what I am doing, kindly fuck off Google" option.

Tbf if you really knew what you're doing, you wouldn't be using gmail.

herewulf on Dec 23, 2017 | [–]

This from the guy with all his passwords in a notebook in the desk drawer.. Have you thought of ROT13 encoding them?

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