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==Is it important to use two-factor authentication?== | |||
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Or even more practically: | |||
* changes are higher that you will know about bad attempts | |||
* changes are lower than someone will get in at all | |||
So for anything that really matters to you, it is likely worth it. | |||
There are footnotes to that, but | |||
The idea that you have to provide | |||
* something you ''have'' (varies, but for convenience is now often "something done on your phone") plus something | |||
'''AND''' | |||
* something you ''know'' (like a password) | |||
...means that | |||
* even if ''one'' of those is taken, or just poorly chosen, | |||
* a system that is set up for 2FA is also more likely to ''tell'' you about attempts that failed on using just one of them | |||
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