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Researcher uncovers one of the biggest password dumps in recent history (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I think for email it's essential, it's critical that someone doesn't make it into your email. Otherwise they can reset all your other passwords.

I have mfa on my account but I just click a checkbox after first time to not ask again. I'm still protected by it and don't have to do anything until I clear my cookies (which I don't for email).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I think they're thinking of TOTP noy being the standard, where you'd just pull out your totp app and paste it without waiting

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Precisely, my brain just completely forgot the term for it and after minutes of not being able to remember for the list of my I just loosely described it. TOTP is exactly what I meant.