I love 2fa systems myself, and use googles authenticator one for dropbox and gmail - services where I have a slightly simpler password that I will need to type on random computers once in a while, and I have 1password for everything else.
If you only ever use your apple ID on your own computers or devices, then I would stick to crazy long random passwords, but if you are using the icloud email service and logging on public computers, then it would be worth setting up the 2fa. On 28 May 2014 09:09, Jason Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > On 27 May 2014, at 22:48, Virginia Routh wrote: > > I used 2step verification for gmail and found it to be a total pain. I >> gave it up after 6 months. >> > > I lost access to my long-standing gmail account when changing phone > de-authenticated Authenticator (didn' think of that!) and none of the > follow-up systems worked ("we can't send an SMS to that phone number, even > though we asked you for it and said it was ok to use and it receives SMS" > etc. But I woudl imagine Apple have thought it through better. > > Google have even blocked the back-up address (my work one) attached to the > account (which they didn't deign to use to reset the authentication) from > being used in its own right so whenever work sets up a google docs and > invites me, I have to email everyone to tell them to use an entirely > different address (and explain, and answer the 'why don't you just...' > emails with 'yes I did, about eight times...' blah blah!) > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
