I read through the links, and there were about 15 posts where people got locked out of their Google account over a 12-year period. Many of these are links to ar

I read through the links, and there were about 15 posts where people got locked out of their Google account over a 12-year period. Many of these are links to articles on other sites not written by the submitter, but we'll count them anyway. So that's ~1 per year. According to dang, there are ~100k monthly active logged-in HN users [1]. In a population that size of 25-54 year-old Americans, you'd expect around 290 to die each year [2]. Getting locked out of my Google account is pretty low on my list of things to worry about. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9219581 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9219581 (and that was in 2015 - I assume it's grown since then) [2] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db427.htm https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db427.htm