Two-Factor authentication
Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2021 1:18 pm
Good to mitigate the risk of having a media/game/financial account compromised by bad actors.
Also makes it much more difficult to bequeath a Steam, Amazon Prime, Vudu, or wherever else you have digital assets of media, to an heir. Yeah, you can pass down the account name and password.... but unless they have your active cell phone with which to authenticate a new sign-in.... which isn't a given at all... then they'll never be able to access your Steam games. BAM.... stuff you paid for just disappeared, and needs to be purchased again.
Also makes it much more difficult to bequeath a Steam, Amazon Prime, Vudu, or wherever else you have digital assets of media, to an heir. Yeah, you can pass down the account name and password.... but unless they have your active cell phone with which to authenticate a new sign-in.... which isn't a given at all... then they'll never be able to access your Steam games. BAM.... stuff you paid for just disappeared, and needs to be purchased again.