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No one is saying that it's fool proof or totally secure. It's just an easy, mostly reliable way to automate the process. If you develop a way to recover people
by shittyanalogy 13y ago
No one is saying that it's fool proof or totally secure. It's just an easy, mostly reliable way to automate the process.
If you develop a way to recover people's email accounts that is simple for consumers, requires no human intervention, and is more secure than phone numbers, patent it and make millions. Seriously, this is a hard problem to solve and companies will gladly pay you for a better solution.
- MichaelGG 13y agoThat's what I'm saying. It's great for most of their users, but as Google becomes more important, it provides an easy single-point-of-failure you can use to completely take over someone's ID.