Author: Justin Pot / Source: howtogeek.com
Two factor authentication vastly improves your security, but hardly anyone uses it: only 10 percent of Google users enable the feature, for example. Why is that?
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Research by Indiana University Professor L.
Jean Camp and graduate researcher Sanchari Das suggests tech-savvy people believe their passwords are so awesome that no additional protection is required. Here’s Alfred Ng, writing for CNet about the study:For their research, they purposely sought out tech-savvy students on campus to make sure the result wasn’t affected by people who just didn’t understand what two-factor authentication is. They wanted participants who had more…
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