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		joezydeco on May 23, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The only way to get hold of a human at Google gmail is a large high-visibility target. I, for one, appreciate the fact that 2FA is available with the service. Everyone should have it turned on for any high-value mail account they own, Google or no-Google.

packetslave on May 23, 2012 [–]

Take a look at, for example, "Abuse at Scale" from the Gmail folks at April's RIPE conference for an idea of the threat.

https://ripe64.ripe.net/presentations/48-AbuseAtScale.pdf

1 million+ bogus authentication attempts per day, 60-100k auths per second (legit and not), etc.

joezydeco on May 24, 2012 | [–]

That's definitely an eyeopener. Gracias.

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