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JoachimSchipper
on Feb 10, 2011
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Advanced sign-in security for your Google account
This is
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- getting access to your mail account allows someone to essentially take over your online identity, so this helps a lot.
I do hope that you can't get in just by knowing someone's mother's maiden name, though...
imd
on Feb 11, 2011
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RTFA, Google sends a code to your phone.
JoachimSchipper
on Feb 11, 2011
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Actually, I was talking about the
backup
method. Happily, that's a list of printable one-time codes. (Obviously, locking you out of your GMail if you lose your phone is not acceptable.)
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I do hope that you can't get in just by knowing someone's mother's maiden name, though...