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Security questions are well known as one of the least secure forms of authentication
But how could anyone else in the world know what my high school mascot was?
It's not about keeping your account secure it's about grabbing commercially valuable personal information they can profit from. If I want to use a phone verification it should be my choice. Never again, fuck all public corporation email sites.
Oh so THAT'S why Gmail has been nagging me for years to give them my phone number to use as a means of backup ID in case I forget my password. I refuse.
They took no for an answer? Huh. After I logged onto email with my smartphone they forced me to, when I needed to get into the account for work, that was 10 years back. My other corporate email forced a phone number long before then, even before I had a smartphone, aol.
They lock me out on the regular if I log in and force me to verify with phone, especially if I haven't logged on in a while, making them worthless to me now that I found a trustworthy email provider.
Interesting. They do give me the option to decline but they don't make it look like it's an option. They do that thing where the accept button is big and looks like the only clickable button, but the decline button doesn't look like a button, it's just some smaller text off to the side. Furthermore they use scare tactics like "you could lose 20 years of emails!" They haven't fooled me yet, I'm holding strong.
@glibg10b @teyrnon It all begins with you giving your secrets away...