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Is Google's 2-step verification less secure with application-specific passwords?
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Mar 15, 20262625 viewsConfidence Score0%
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When using Google's 2-step verification with services that can't use it, such as mail clients on smartphones and desktops, the solution is to create application-specific passwords for those services. Doesn't that make things less secure than just using one password as this opens up the account to m…
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The idea is to use multiple application-specific password for each login you require. That way, if your laptop is compromised (for example), then you can just revoke the app-specific passwords you used on your laptop. It also means no-one can use an…
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