"Sign In From A Less Secure App"

Ben Elder · Post by **Ben Elder** » 24 Jul 2016 8:33 am

Google/Gmail has recently notified me of three separate attempts (each different countries, none of them the US) to log into my account "from a less secure app."

What does "less secure app" mean? Does someone have my password and Google just doesn't like the IP address so they're blocking the would-be intruder, or...?

I only sign in from a Gmail page (not from something like Mail on my Macs.)

I changed my password (pushpullfatbackcuttailSKHLeGrandeD10yeahright) so the hackers will be rebuffed from the get-go?

Dave Potter · Post by **Dave Potter** » 24 Jul 2016 9:54 am

Is that actually a password you're using somewhere now? I ask because you're making it public here.

FWIW, using real words and terms for passwords isn't the most secure way to do it. Something random that uses upper/lower case letters, numbers and symbols is better - something like wy6%*3OfnC as a random example.

Ben Elder · Post by **Ben Elder** » 24 Jul 2016 2:06 pm

It's my ultra-facetious SGF- jargon fake Password. Not in use ever.

And my handle is neither BE or Obese E. Question's serious though.

Dave Potter · Post by **Dave Potter** » 24 Jul 2016 3:26 pm

Yeah, OK. Didn't really think so, but some strange stuff shows up here from time to time.