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Wow, didn't expect this post to blow up like this. For reference, I have no 2FA, nor did I lose my corporate device. I've always accessed it through a web brow
by HelloThur 6y ago
Wow, didn't expect this post to blow up like this.
For reference, I have no 2FA, nor did I lose my corporate device. I've always accessed it through a web browser, never through a mobile, therefore when it asks me to verify with my corporate mobile device, I do not know what device it is referring to.
- jandrese 6y agoWhich device did you use when Google first asked you to verify your phone number? Your personal cell phone maybe?
- techntoke 6y agoThey don't remember, which is probably how they got themselves into this mess, which everyone else uses as an opportunity to share their Google hate and call for regulation.
- jlokier 6y agoAssuming it was their phone number. What options do they have now, if they abruptly stopped using that phone number for some reason 10 years ago and had no realistic way to know which 275 utilities were hitched to the number (or even if they did, couldn't contact support for reasons described in the article), for example: - because they couldn't afford to pay the bills for a while - or moved country - or changed contract and then found they couldn't port the number (happened to me) and lost the old number - or someone took their phone and they were unable in practice to recover the number or continue using it - or they were ill in hospital for long enough their phone contract expired and they could not have dealt with transfer issues at the time