Is it a pain to carry a separate 2FA device around? Sure, but its far less of a pain than having your online accounts or device accessed by someone and then having to deal with everything that comes with that situation. And if you don’t want to buy and carry a physical key, these are all worth considering to add as a second line of defense for your online accounts and Chromebook login. You can use an authenticator app, a trusted Bluetooth device such as your phone, a prompt in your Google mobile app or SMS message codes.

Granted, you can set up 2FA for Chrome OS device logins without a hardware security key. Sure, you can set up experimental 2FA with the power button on a Pixelbook, which is great for online password protection, but not so great for device protection, which then allows access to your online accounts anyway if you store the credentials with Google. I just take it a step further with my Chromebook because without 2FA, if someone had my Google account credentials, they’d be able to log in to my Pixelbook.

Again, that’s really what 2FA is meant for.

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