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>In terms of insecurity, I think the weakest link is that my email is permanently connected on my phone, so if I lost my phone and someone bypassed my pin they could access all of my email. And 2 factor authentication does nothing to solve that.
2 factor authentication does solve that. In order for your phone to access gmail, you create an application-specific password in your Google account. And you can then revoke access for that application with one click (which you could not do without the 2 factor setup).
Commented Apr 18, 2012 on Make Your Email Hacker Proof at Coding Horror
Make Your Email Hacker Proof
It's only a matter of time until your email gets hacked. Don't believe me? Just read this harrowing cautionary tale. When [my wife] came back to her desk, half an hour later, she couldn’t log into Gmail at all. By that time, I was up and looking at e‑mail, and we both quickly saw what the re...
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