Is this new, or have online accounts never offered the ability to update your email address easily?

  • Showroom7561@lemmy.caOP
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    9 months ago

    anything handling sensitive data (medical, legal, financial, etc) absolutely needs stringent and thorough processes for completely changing login information (i.e. email address).

    Hardware-based 2fa would be nice, but it seems that these same organizations are among the only which DON’T have hardware-based 2fa and insist on texting codes, instead.

    None of them actually take security seriously, even through all of them should be!

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      9 months ago

      I agree, texted codes are not very secure and it honestly surprises me how common that quasi-2fa implementation still is. Granted, common thieves/scammers don’t typically go thru the hassle of emulating your number and generating a false sim card in order to intercept text messages meant for you. So, it’s still better than nothing, at least.