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What is so important about email in 2012? Tell your contacts your new email, and change restore email option at web resources. Sure, it is a bit uncomfortable and will take 1-2 days to finish, but probability of this scenario is very low.


It's also the backdoor to nearly every online account you have, by way of 'reset password' links.


That would be a problem if your Gmail was hacked.

The GP is talking about Google themselves blocking access. I'm not worried that Google will reset my passwords in other accounts.


The problem is, that it prevents you from resetting passwords, too. Which could very well lock you out of your own accounts.




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