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Did you ever think about two-step verification to increase your password security?

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My feeling is that two-step verification is still not very common, although a lot of services are listing this feature. Here you will find them:
Helpful apps are e.g. Google Authenticator or Authy.

Updated my list on 27.02.2014 with some more services

  • Buffer
  • Yahoo!
  • Apple added, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain

Updated my list on 10.03.2014 with one more

Updated my list on 26.03.2014

Updated my list on 02.04.2014

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