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Even better, LOCK DOWN YOUR GOOGLE ACCOUNT WITH DOUBLE AUTHENTICATION, then set Google alerts for your:

credit card, or if paranoid, partial credit card # "123456789"

Email address

Home address

Phone number

screen name (e.g.: "andrenotgiant" -site:ycombinator.com)

Bank acct partial

Password, Password partial "p@ssw0r"



Sweet, now someone just has to get into my google account settings and I'm screwed.


I imagine this is why the parent poster mention enabling two-factor authentication first.


Sweet, now someone has to get into parent's google account AND swipe his phone!


And my phone has my google account information.. :/


Are we too obsessed to ignore irony/humour?


Are these alerts over Gmail traffic or the whole internet?




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