4 ms·
What if they've had their mobile phone stolen and can't do 2-factor auth and that's why they're calling?
by LoganCale 14y ago
What if they've had their mobile phone stolen and can't do 2-factor auth and that's why they're calling?
- laconian 14y agoSecurity traded for convenience, back to square one.
- Wingman4l7 14y agoIsn't this scenario why Gmail's 2-factor authorization gives you a set of one-time passwords?
- ianferrel 14y agoWhat if you lose them? At some point, there has to be a way to get back into your account. Probably, going through slow and hard to hack methods like the postal system.
- Wingman4l7 14y agoWell, continuing to use Gmail as an example, there is an account recovery system, which IIRC asks for a bunch of details to try and determine if you are the account owner (account creation date, names of labels used, etc.) If Google or a third party would provide a list of these details, then you could collate that info as additional insurance against your posited scenario.
- LoganCale 14y agoThere's inevitably going to be someone who loses them or never prints them out in the first place.