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   Flash Mob Of One (flashmobofone@mastodon.art)'s status on Tuesday, 13-May-2025 09:07:35 JST Flash Mob Of One

   Interesting.

   Not once, but twice, someone tried to get into my email account today via password, which I've now changed.

   2FA caught it both times.

   As annoying as 2FA can be, it's essential.

   #Technology #Security #Privacy

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     Flash Mob Of One (flashmobofone@mastodon.art)'s status on Tuesday, 13-May-2025 09:45:31 JST Flash Mob Of One

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     • highly principled invertebrate

     @BrahmaBelarusian Oh dang. I'm sorry.

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     highly principled invertebrate (brahmabelarusian@todon.eu)'s status on Tuesday, 13-May-2025 09:45:33 JST highly principled invertebrate

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     @FlashMobOfOne I've had the opposite experience, which is to say I've been permanently locked out of an email & former Amazon account because they demanded I use my "other" method, just to login & I don't keep that other updated by their schedule. Maybe if they'd allow the "other" to be something other than a phone number, it wouldn't be such a problem but between the phone number & the still frequent push of captchas. I find #2FA to be nothing better than an annoyance set, generally worse. #Technology