In article <CAKnNFz_apy8KHBXj0umGoq6UfCD640Jtxe9A+2TqU-d761-eug@mail.gmail.com> you write:
Haha I cringe when I do a password recovery at a site and they either email the current pw to me in plain text or just as bad reset it then email it in plain text. Its really sad that stuff this bad is still so common.
If they do a reset, what difference does it make whether they send the password in plain text or as a one-time link? Either way, if a bad guy can read the mail, he can steal the account. Given the enormous scale of Gmail, I think they do a reasonable job of account security. If you want to make your account secure with an external account or an external token (a physical one like a yubikey or a software one like the authenticator app), you can. Or if you consider your account to be low value, you can treat it that way, too. R's, John