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>provided you own a cell phone.

Well, crap. My only "phone" is my Google Voice number...



Could always use an iPod Touch, if you have one.


That's actually my current setup. It still kind of defeats the purpose though; I have to be logged in to Google Voice in order to authenticate logging in to Gmail with the same account. I'll wait for them to get a little more creative before I expect it to be much safer.


Or a iPad v2 or 3.


Two factor auth works fine without a cell phone. You can put a land line in as a backup and of course you should store the extra physical codes somewhere safe as well.

Obviously though, this would be a pain to use without a portable device that can generate the appropriate time-based code.




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