• KaneA
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    14 hours ago

    This is why people should be worried of using these massive services, luckily it was ‘only’ Discord (if this was your primary way to interact with friends, this can be a huge deal).

    But imagine if it was your email account!

    Getting a reputable provider, self hosting or using a decentralized option is paramount for your own sanity.

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      3 hours ago

      There was that man who was all in on Google.

      He had a telemedicine appointment for his son who had a problem with his penis. Dr asked him to send a close-up photo so he could diagnose the skin condition

      So the guy takes the photo with his pixel phone and sends it

      The phone automatically backs up the photo

      Google’s AI says it’s child porn, his account is deleted and police are contacted

      Police look into it and say “not porn, totally fine” but have to go to his house to tell him the was no problem because his phone was Google, his internet was Google fibre, his email was Gmail and his photo album was on Google and all that was irrevocably deleted

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      13 hours ago

      Currently having problems with GMail I lost my old phone (2fA) and no device was logged in so i could not access steam and like everything that requires that old mail

      And my phone provider or postal service is stupid because i could not get a replacement sim after multiple tries which normally works

      Googles account recovery policy is basically:

      • 2fA
      • recovery email
      • create a new account x.x

      I think the recovery mail option only gets unlocked after 6? months inactivity because ~3 months ago i did not have the option

      Now after requesting a recovery i still have to wait a full month before they maybe send me a password reset to my moms mail

      But steam support was nice. Managed to get the account by providing a product key i used a few months ago and was lucky enough not to have thrown the physical card away

      • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        8 hours ago

        Currently having problems with GMail I lost my old phone (2fA)

        Yea this is exactly why I don’t use 2FA

        If the password is like 64 characters randomly generated by Keepass, the 2FA doesn’t matter.

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          43 minutes ago

          You can still accidentally leak your password via phishing or malware. 2FA is fine if you don’t tie it to a phone number, simplest way: install any authenticator app for TOTP tokens. Scan the QR code on multiple devices like phone + tablet, or old phone, for redundancy. Or save the secret key.

          Google and most critical services also give you a list of 10 single use emergency codes that you should print or save in Keepass - lost the phone? Nbd just use one of the codes and reset 2FA.

          I also never thought my non shared password would be public but one day I suddenly got prompted on the authenticator if I wanted to login; still no idea how or why but at least no one could get in and immediately rotated out the password.

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          7 hours ago

          This is what I do as well. A few services force 2fa though and also have 0 good options (let me use my flipper as a u2f through not chrome, ungoogled-chromium works, but damn), and for those I’m forced to use text.

          While I’m here, anyone have a good chrome based browser that is private and can use serial ports for flashing meshtastic devices and u2f? Need android mainly because I have ungoogled-chromium on linux, but will take recs for linux too if there’s a better one.