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540: The Points Don’t Matter

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Google's Two-Factor Authentication

Sebastian Cohen: Shouldn't 2FA be kept as a separate factor on an iPhone or other device? Dave Copeland writes, in the discussion of Google auth and syncing, there was an implication that Keech and can perform a two-factor authentication. And Drew writes, the central threat model motivating 2FA is not that someone has access to your computer, it says they've captured your password from someone else's insecure system.

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