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Mar 19, 2024 10:28:34 #
I had to get a code to open my Ancestry page to see new relatives. After I signed in, I got another code. Why? What is this new code for. I'm getting sick of have to take so many steps to sign in. What's the point of an ID and a password.
This was funny - one of the headlines on the Ancestry page: "Common Ancestors in Trees." I'm not sure I want to see pictures of monkeys in tree as my ancestors.
They say my ancestry is 95% Irish and 6% Scottish. No Neanderthal?
EDITED: I got an email from Ancestry saying that I now have two-step verification. Whoopee!
This was funny - one of the headlines on the Ancestry page: "Common Ancestors in Trees." I'm not sure I want to see pictures of monkeys in tree as my ancestors.
They say my ancestry is 95% Irish and 6% Scottish. No Neanderthal?
EDITED: I got an email from Ancestry saying that I now have two-step verification. Whoopee!
Mar 19, 2024 10:35:39 #
Two-step verification helps prevent someone from getting into your account if they manage to abscond with your ID and PW.
I like it!
I just have to remember to take my phone when I go to the other computer upstairs.....
Otherwise I get extra exercise.
I like it!
I just have to remember to take my phone when I go to the other computer upstairs.....
Otherwise I get extra exercise.
Mar 19, 2024 10:38:35 #
Longshadow wrote:
Two-step verification helps prevent someone from getting into your account if they manage to abscond with your ID and PW.
I like it!
I just have to remember to take my phone when I go to the other computer upstairs.....
Otherwise I get extra exercise.
I like it!
I just have to remember to take my phone when I go to the other computer upstairs.....
Otherwise I get extra exercise.
And if they get my second code? I'd like multi-verification, and that should change every hour. Give me a dozen changing codes to supply for every website! 😁
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Mar 19, 2024 11:00:08 #
jerryc41 wrote:
And if they get my second code? ...
If they get your second code, wouldn't they have your phone also???
Mar 19, 2024 11:07:38 #
jerryc41 wrote:
And if they get my second code? I'd like multi-verification, and that should change every hour. Give me a dozen changing codes to supply for every website! 😁
Can't speak for what you use for the two-step code but mine changes every 60 seconds
Mar 19, 2024 11:40:15 #
fredpnm wrote:
Can't speak for what you use for the two-step code but mine changes every 60 seconds
That's gotta be a pain.
Mar 19, 2024 12:55:00 #
jerryc41 wrote:
I had to get a code to open my Ancestry page to se... (show quote)
Back in my younger days, I used to claim 3/4 Scotch and 1/4 Coffee.
Mar 19, 2024 13:23:46 #
Longshadow wrote:
If they get your second code, wouldn't they have your phone also???
I had a gmail account with two-step verification that someone successfully bypassed, without having my phone. The sign-in two step was successfully changed, by the hacker, so I could not sign in.
In the two-step I had set up, gmail sent a text to my phone with the code.
After the hack, when I tried to sign-in, gmail's message was that the code was being sent to a gmail email address that is not mine, never was, and I have no idea whose it is.
Gmail, google, was absolutely no help in resolving the issue, telling me the only way I could get access to the account again is to get the code from that other gmail account, then when I had access, I could change the two-step back to what I wanted.
Did I contact that other gmail account to ask for my account to be released back to me? Absolutely not! If someone was there to reply, and was going to demand a "ransom" to release my account, or whatever, I was not going to give them anything more about me than they had already stolen.
After two weeks of pestering google about the situation, I just abandoned them and opened an e-mail in yahoo. The only thing I used that gmail for, anyway, was some online "continuing education" monthly lessons required by the employer I had at the time.
Nothing of value to be stolen there, really, but the sense of being personally violated, then unhelped by google did not sit well at all.
Mar 19, 2024 13:27:33 #
Mar 19, 2024 13:50:39 #
cahale
Loc: San Angelo, TX
jerryc41 wrote:
I had to get a code to open my Ancestry page to se... (show quote)
And you are that rare 101% person.
Mar 19, 2024 23:47:09 #
Wait! What? If math still works the way I learned it, you are 101% of something, Jerry. Kinda' makes you questions 'Ancestry's' facts.
jerryc41 wrote:
They say my ancestry is 95% Irish and 6% Scottish. No Neanderthal?
They say my ancestry is 95% Irish and 6% Scottish. No Neanderthal?
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Mar 20, 2024 07:06:51 #
Rolk wrote:
Wait! What? If math still works the way I learned it, you are 101% of something, Jerry. Kinda' makes you questions 'Ancestry's' facts.
rounding....
ie. 94.7 and 6.4.... if calculated individually.
95+6
Could also be short 1 if truncated.
Mar 20, 2024 08:52:46 #
Longshadow wrote:
If they get your second code, wouldn't they have your phone also???
Let's face it, no one is safe. If governments and vital utilities can get hacked, anyone can get hacked.
Mar 20, 2024 08:59:01 #
jerryc41 wrote:
Let's face it, no one is safe. If governments and vital utilities can get hacked, anyone can get hacked.
Mar 20, 2024 09:44:57 #
You are part Irish and part Scottish...? That means that you like to drink but you don't like to pay for it! 😁
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