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Re: google account say it will no longer deliver email



On Sat 14 May 2022 at 15:21:06 +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:

> On Sat, May 14, 2022 at 12:42:28PM +0100, Brian wrote:

[...]

> > Let me introduce you to my bank: they reduced the maximum 20 chars
> > to 16 and did not allow some special chars such as "!" and ".".
> > Mind you, I feel much more secure - 3FA is used :).
> 
> Three? Why not go all the way to 5FA [1]?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> [1] https://boingboing.net/2005/09/14/gillettes-5blade-raz.html
>     (not linking to the original Onion because their Javascript
>     doesn't want to play with me)

I have just realised that PayPal does 5FA. It meets the Gillete
standard. Or should that be the MAD standard? Our capacity to
put up with sysadmin (management?) nonsense is unlimited.

-- 
Brian.


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