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emeidi
on Oct 21, 2016
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Adding a phone number to your Google account can m...
I stopped reading here: "While Bob didn’t have multi-factor authentication enabled"
claudius
on Oct 21, 2016
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You shouldn’t have. Google trusted the phone too much, using it instead of the user-supplied secrets to determine who was allowed to access the account. Whether or not the account used multi-factor authentication seems quite perfectly irrelevant?
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