Gmail prompt to provide phone number sounds like a threat

  • The Hobbyist@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    What are you talking about? Google is not encrypting their emails, where did you get that info from?

    • nbailey@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, this has nothing to do with encryption, it’s because they refuse to have a support division that would be able to get people back into their accounts.

      • stratoscaster@lemmy.zip
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        1 year ago

        What? No, that’s the whole point of 2FA. There is literally no other way to verify authorization otherwise because it’s by-default incapable of verifying identity.

        Knowing the previous password doesn’t help because those are often found in password dumps.

        This is true of any email service.

        • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          1 year ago

          Yes but that has nothing to do with the data being encrypted and Google not having access to it. Their whole business runs around them having too much access to user data.

          And yeah before you say anything, yeah the data is probably encrypted at rest which means nothing in this case.