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Security experts have been banging the drum about password managers and enabling two-factor authentication for what seems like an eternity. Probably because year after year, hordes of you keep using “123456" and “password” to secure your shit online. Well, Google’s not having it anymore. So long as you provide a secondary email or phone number, the company will soon start automatically enabling 2FA on your Google Accounts.
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The change isn’t so much an announcement, as it is a little tidbit included in an official Google blog on password security published today for World Password Day. According to Google, searches for “how strong is my password” shot up by 300% in 2020. But even if everyone used long, complicated passwords, Google says that’s not good enough, as it can encourage people to use that same, complicated-but-secure password across multiple accounts. The goal is to do away with passwords altogether.