Re: google and insecure apps
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Gene
Since GMail considers almost every program to be
less secure and since you aren't likely to be hacked using these widely used
programs, why bother to learn another program that is more secure but where it
doesn't matter?
If you are hacked, you will know immediately.
you will receive a message from GMail to your back up e-mail address telling you
that someone logged into your account with this or that device and I believe
giving an approximate location. If you use a good password, unless your
machine is infectedd with malware or GMail itself is hacked, I consider the risk
of being hacked to be small or negligible.
If I used e-mail for some sort of important
purposes, I would encrypt it if privacy were a concern. for typical
discussions such as list mail and conversations with friends, why
bother?
Gene
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To those on outlook and other programs as long as your program supports o auth 2 it will be fine. Even though thunderbird with normal passwords works fine with o auth I get a faster experience with sending and recieving. I did have less secure apps on, but just turned it off since now I am able to use o auth in thunderbird I have no desire or need to leave that active. Becides google keeps complaining about it every so often so I don't have it. If you currently use outlook as a home user and either don't use any advanced features or are only using it for mail, I'd personally switch to thunderbird and turn on o auth so that you can get mail without this insecure stuff. You can also buy office 2019 which should have this security standard.
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