I don't have a PayPal account and don't understand the connection between your Google account and that. Thankfully, I don't need to! [image: appl.gif]
*~Diane* On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 5:21 AM, Skip Montanaro <skip.montan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Diane, > > > > > Congratulations on getting your two-step verification going. I can't > imagine how we'd have figured that out. > *There is no way! I was so frustrated because it was very clear that > I should have been able to receive codes by voice on my landline or even > dumbphone.* > > On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 11:17 PM, DEP/Dodo <depfah...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I enabled 2-step via the computer I will be taking with me at times. I >> made sure to trust that computer. I understand that 2-step affects getting >> into my Chrome/Google account. What I don't understand is I remain signed >> in to My Account (the cookies?) so that I can turn on the computer and >> immediately go into Gmail. How is Gmail then protected by hackers and such? > > > I think it's mostly a compromise between convenience and security. I have > to log back into Google on occasion (most often, I suspect, when our cable > box gets a new IP address or I go somewhere with my laptop). I also have > two-step authentication enabled on PayPal and a couple other sites. It's > annoynig to always have to go through the two-step dance, but I'm willing > to put up with it for the extra security, especially for financial sites > like PayPal and sites I visit less frequently. Between Google itself, > Gmail, Google Groups, Google Docs, Picasa, and I don't know what all, it > would be a royal PITA to have to go through the two-step verification > process every time I visited a Google web property. > > Skip > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gmail-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to gmail-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
