On Wednesday, June 08, 2022 05:58:44 PM Felmon Davis wrote: > I don't understand the *logical* connection. logically you can have > app-specific pw's without 2-step auth. (not sure about the other way > around.)
Google requires 2-step authorization as a prerequisite to application specific passwords on their system. It is not phrased as a recommendation, but I don't know if it is enforced with code or not. Anyway, I didn't want to test it, but I may have now spent more time reading / writing about it that I would have testing it. Maybe tomorrow (but maybe not). > if we leave aside for a moment incriminations of corporate power and > plots, is there some reason to connect the two methods? No -- from a purely logical point of view (afaics) there is no reason to connect them -- Google apparently has some reason that I have not seen disclosed (I didn't look very hard for it).
