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Why does everyone jump to banks? They are welcome to keep their annoying security procedures. All my money is in there. I show my actual ID every time I transac

Why does everyone jump to banks? They are welcome to keep their annoying security procedures. All my money is in there. I show my actual ID every time I transact at a bank branch, so I can understand if they are careful. The things that annoy me the most when I travel are rarely banks – those tend to work just fine. It's usually the main trifecta – Facebook, Twitter, and sometimes Gmail. > If you forget your password, they just email you a new one. And in fact this is exactly what is so terrifying about Google moving more towards this kind of "oh you're in a different place, you must be a bad person" authentication. Email services are the single point of password recovery for almost all the websites you access. Sure, perhaps you'll lose a token; but most folks will learn to carry a couple over time. On the other hand, if Google locks you out because you look "too risky", you might lose access to multiple websites (because a lot of them these days email you security codes and such if you're logging in from a browser without cookies).

pooper 4y ago
> Facebook, Twitter, and sometimes Gmail. I know this is really sloppy of me but I'd argue my Gmail is as important if not more important than my bank account. If you have access to my bank, you have access to one bank account of mine but if you have control of my Google account, you now have access to all my bank accounts. I agree though. I opted into two step authentication for a reason. If I give you both my password and two step code, add this entry to an append only table and move on. I guess Facebook and Twitter will have this problem where people will take over someone's account and lock them out. Without going into too many details, I saw this happen to someone close to me. It is wild that there are scammers who do this for a living.

pooper 4y ago

> Facebook, Twitter, and sometimes Gmail. I know this is really sloppy of me but I'd argue my Gmail is as important if not more important than my bank account. If you have access to my bank, you have access to one bank account of mine but if you have control of my Google account, you now have access to all my bank accounts. I agree though. I opted into two step authentication for a reason. If I give you both my password and two step code, add this entry to an append only table and move on. I guess Facebook and Twitter will have this problem where people will take over someone's account and lock them out. Without going into too many details, I saw this happen to someone close to me. It is wild that there are scammers who do this for a living.