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I get the email thing. And I've actually been moving critical accounts away from my personal Gmail for a while now. As for the rest, the services I use, I use
by danemorgan 7y ago
I get the email thing. And I've actually been moving critical accounts away from my personal Gmail for a while now.
As for the rest, the services I use, I use them because they work better than any of the other options I have tried.
I'll admit that that amounts to as substantial number of services.
- godzillabrennus 7y agoI have never understood using a gmail.com account for anything important. It’s always been inexpensive enough to buy a domain and have an email address associated with it. I also don’t understand startup founders who tie personal emails into a business email account. Keep a separate email.
- xref 7y agoFor one, a personal domain is less secure than a gmail.com domain. There have been quite a few targeted hacks, like Mat Honan or any number of crypto-holders, where a personal domain was socially engineered to be transferred to a new registrar (or password reset on existing registrar) where the attacker controls the MX records, thus your email, thus your password resets. It’s much harder to transfer gmail.com, office.com, etc
- deanmoriarty 7y agoThat’s something I’ve been worried about since I switched to a custom domain email address that I point to another mail service: I protect my registrar account with 2fa, but I still think that the chances of someone hacking via social engineering my DNS registrar (Gandi) or the MX provider are much higher than someone hacking my 2fa personal @gmail.com account. I might just be paranoid.
- SanchoPanda 7y agoI think the key here is you have tried the other options, and importantly - you clearly know how to set those other services up if need be. For many if not most people, that would be entering the wild unknown.
- danemorgan 7y agoFair enough.