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Who's to say that your email account getting hacked is less dire than losing access to it? Attackers can easily search your inbox for 'verify your email', visit
by judge2020 4y ago
Who's to say that your email account getting hacked is less dire than losing access to it? Attackers can easily search your inbox for 'verify your email', visit any website of value, and use their access to change the account away from your email to an address that they own, effectively removing your access to your third-party website accounts entirely.
- Wowfunhappy 4y agoI don't know that it is less dire, but I do think it's less likely. Are homeless people's email accounts getting hacked three times per year? Also... maybe getting hacked is worse, or maybe loosing access is worse, but the user should have the right to make that decision! Google can set the default, but the user knows his or her own life.
- yellowapple 4y ago> Are homeless people's email accounts getting hacked three times per year? The aversion to 2FA makes them seem like easy targets if I'm looking for addresses to use for spam. > maybe getting hacked is worse, or maybe loosing access is worse, but the user should have the right to make that decision Getting hacked makes losing access considerably more likely. This ain't one or the other.
- Wowfunhappy 4y ago> The aversion to 2FA makes them seem like easy targets if I'm looking for addresses to use for spam. If you want to spam people, why not just sign up for your own gmail account?
- yellowapple 4y agoBecause then it'd be tied to my number (assuming I haven't figured out some workaround) and could then be traced back to me.
- sph 4y agoBecause you can still use an account everybody knows the password of. It's a terrible place to be in, but isn't nowhere as bad as being a homeless person with no access to HN and Twitter, having Google delete your account and nowhere to complain about. Because that is even worse.