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Can you disable two-factor authentication on your Apple ID?
Monday December 24, 2018. 02:00 PM , from Mac 911
Two-factor authentication (2FA) provides an effective way to deter people from hijacking an online account. With 2FA, you supplement a password with something else—typically you enter a code that’s sent via a text message. The second factor means someone has to know both your password and have access to something you own—a phone number, a phone, or a computer—and dramatically reduces your exposure when password breaches inevitably happen.Apple added 2FA for Apple IDs a few releases ago, an upgrade from its hastily constructed two-step verification, which it created after high-publicity cracks using social engineering (i.e., guessing and phishing) of its iCloud service.To read this article in full, please click here
https://www.macworld.com/article/3328839/security/can-you-disable-two-factor-authentication-on-your-...
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