Android phone number verification now links your numbers to every Google account on the device. Here is how to turn it off.
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Android 17 QPR2 Beta 5 code hints at an Unlock with Google Account feature to recover a forgotten PIN without a factory reset. Here is how it may work.
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Google is testing an Android feature that could let users recover access to a locked phone with their Google Account instead of factory resetting it.
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Google added selfie video recovery for eligible accounts, using encrypted videos and liveness checks to help users regain access when locked out.
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Lots of startups use Google’s productivity suite, known as Workspace, to handle email, documents, and other back-office matters. Relatedly, lots of business-minded webapps use Google’s OAuth, i.e. “Sign in with Google.” It’s a low-friction feedback loop—up until the startup fails, the domain goes up for sale, and somebody forgot to close down all the Google stuff.
Dylan Ayrey, of Truffle Security Co., suggests in a report that this problem is more serious than anyone, especially Google, is acknowledging. Many startups make the critical mistake of not properly closing their accounts—on both Google and other web-based apps—before letting their domains expire.
Given the number of people working for tech startups (6 million), the failure rate of said startups (90 percent), their usage of Google Workspaces (50 percent, all by Ayrey’s numbers), and the speed at which startups tend to fall apart, there are a lot of Google-auth-connected domains up for sale at any time. That would not be an inherent problem, except that, as Ayrey shows, buying a domain with a still-active Google account can let you re-activate the Google accounts for former employees.
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