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Gmail hacked

I rebooted my phone this morning, it logged me out of my gapps and couldn't log back in until I got to a pc. It makes me feel pretty good about how secure 2 step is. It was a pita to not get my mail, but oh well...
 
That's secure in the sense that your password would be hard to brute force, but you have a single point of failure in the password. So if any of those computers end up being compromized, you could have the password itself sniffed.

That's the basic reason two-factor authentication is (generally) more secure than just passwords.
Thanks. As a gmail user, I'll add the two step authentication to my account. Cheers.
 
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