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Some people are going to find this to be awesome (mostly the paranoid), while others will just be frustrated they now have to remember two passwords.
by acconrad 16y ago
Some people are going to find this to be awesome (mostly the paranoid), while others will just be frustrated they now have to remember two passwords.
- stanleydrew 16y agoThose who would be frustrated just wont enable it. But it's not as inconvenient as you make it out to be; you still only have to remember one password, since the second is dynamically generated.
- bryanlarsen 16y agoAnd the second is only entered once per method of accessing your google account.
- bryanlarsen 16y agoIt's optional -- you don't have to enable it if you don't want it. This is a good answer to those who were recently moaning that "anybody who hacks my google account can now push apps to my phone with out a confirmation!" Quite frankly, I worry quite a bit less about hackers pushing malware to my phone than I do to people hacking into my e-mail. I'm going to let this shake out for a while and then enable it.
- haberman 16y agoThere is no "remembering" involved -- you get the second password from an app on your phone. And you only have to enter this second password once per month (per computer that you access your account from).
- stanleydrew 16y agoI assume you enter the second password once per browser session, not once "per computer." For people who use incognito mode heavily or clear their cookies on shutdown this will mean using the second password every time, but something tells me those people are of the type who want to be using two-factor auth all the time anyway.