Ask HN: Gmail account security
When my kids were born I created gmail accounts for them to save the name for when they become old enough to use it. This worked well when I did it from home, but for my last born I created his account *<i>on the hospital wifi*</i>, saved pass in 1pass. A couple years later I tried to login to his account from home and got thrown into this recovery hell. I visited that same hospital wing a year later to try "a prior location", but it didn't work.<p>As a result I unintentionally caused the very problem I was trying to prevent.