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cbs on Aug 7, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic...

>Don't ask any more questions - just try it out!

Not even these question:

Aren't we as tech people completely and utterly failing the world at large when the best possible response to this story is to turn on 2 factor auth on one of the many accounts a person has?

Is a very slight reduction to the attack surface really the best we can do?

Seriously?

nl on Aug 7, 2012 [–]

Is a very slight reduction to the attack surface really the best we can do?

At the moment, yes, I think it is.

At some point in the future perhaps this may improve (although I wouldn't count on it).

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