Not once was I asked if I wanted 2FA (two-factor authentication) for my Apple or Amazon accounts.
I don’t want 2FA, because, being homeless/poor, you frequently lose access to phones and the like. That’s why a lot of homeless people will have like a dozen abandoned FB accounts (I have 3), because we just haphazardly use the suggested “secure password” to log in, and then someone steals our phone, or we lose it, or drop it in the toilet.
So no, Apple, I don’t have that device anymore. I don’t have that phone number either. Or access to that email address. The last four digits of a debit card I’ve used? b0i.
The one thing I do have?
MY FUCKING PASSWORD
I’m getting locked out of accounts I have the fucking password for! What the FUCK?
Who and why though?
lot of things you can do with a hijacked account, including trying to phishing attacks on accounts on your friends list or contacts. Having poor security practice, even if there’s a good reason for compromise, puts everyone you know at greater risk.
ah so my accounts are safe because I dont have any.
sure, you’ll just get the random bots offering art commissions or mr. beast bucks.
I mean if some person needs to create new accounts because they keep loosing access to their old accounts their contacts are just as vulnerable to impersonating accounts as to someone hijacking the account.