They'll be enabling two-factor tinfoil hats, soon.
I don't understand this response. With the level of private, personal, or otherwise confidential information they handle on a daily basis it's completely incomprehensible that they haven't implemented some sort of encryption. When I save a file to my hard drive I can reasonably expect that the only people that are going to read it are the ones with physical access to the drive. On the cloud, who knows?
They're a company that makes money off of very targeted advertising. If you expect to use their services for free, letting them access your data to market to you better is the price you pay.
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I can see using the sms backup for this and maybe (really maybe) printing out some passwords and putting them in my wallet. The sms backup would at least let you get a pw if you're in a bind.
I do agree that Google is one of my most important passwords and it looks like it will be even more so in the future. I do absolutely love Google though.
Maybe it's just me, but I thought that this had existed for years now? (or at least almost one year), as that's when I remember my google account first popping up a message suggesting that I activate 2 step verification.
Guide might need to be updated. Link to Play store doesn't work anymore, and when I followed the steps, there doesn't seem to be anything that connects #2 to #3. Because of that, #3 is ambiguous. Do I scan the code on this page, or how do I get to the page where it displays my own? There may be a new page or a page redesign since the guide was written.
I think the guide could benefit from a screenshot of the page where you do the remaining steps. The red box is where you select, in my case, Android to get the QR code for step 3.
It looks like the steps have changed a little. I don't have a list of steps for Set Up Phone/Add Backup/Confirm like you have in your first and second screenshot.
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Blackhawk, even though it won't accept your SMS number, can you still enable it with the print backups?
https://developer.palm.com/appredirect/?packageid=com.gregstoll.gauth
I do agree that Google is one of my most important passwords and it looks like it will be even more so in the future. I do absolutely love Google though.
It looks like the steps have changed a little. I don't have a list of steps for Set Up Phone/Add Backup/Confirm like you have in your first and second screenshot.