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Google is tapping user cell phones to provide an extra level of sign-in security for Google Apps, its suite of online business applications. On Monday, the company announced that it's now offering what it calls two-step verification. When the new tool is turned on and you log in to your Google Apps account, it requires not …

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  1. Adam Salisbury
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    At bleedin last!!!

    Normally I'm not a fan of the Googleplex but give them a hand for beign the first to do what the IT security industry should've been doing years ago - bring two-factor authentication to consumers, the only other exception I know of being Barclays.

    Bout damned time!

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    Oh great...

    ...so now we'll have to hand over contact details to spam merchants in the name of security.

    I'm sure many people have a rarely used 'spam-mail' account for gaining access to online services which are likely to result in spam, but how many would buy a 'spam-phone'?

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    Minor problem.

    What if you loose or break your phone? It will make accessing your data that bit more difficult.

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    1. Daniel Evans
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      Ah

      Or your friend/colleague/spouse's phone, or your latest iBerrydroid...

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