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I finally stopped clicking 'remember this device' after a friend got hacked

My buddy in Denver had his entire Google account taken over because he always clicked that checkbox at public computers. After that, I started using a password manager with 2FA and now I log out everywhere, even at home. Has anyone else dropped that habit after seeing it go wrong?
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wells.reese
Yeah I started doing the same thing after I helped someone clean up a hack that started exactly like that. Now I just let my password manager autofill everything, never click that checkbox. The extra few seconds to type in a 2FA code is worth not having to explain to your wife why your email sent her weird links at 3am.
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miawalker
miawalker3d ago
Yeah the "explaining weird links at 3am" part got me, that changed my mind.
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