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by warner25 1203 days ago
I'll admit to being an IT person who didn't understand how they worked for a whole year after I first set them up on my Google account. I seriously thought that they were one-time passwords by themselves. About a year later, I decided to test my disaster recovery plan and found that I also needed to have my Google password memorized; I couldn't depend on retrieving it from my KeePass database stored in Google Drive. In retrospect, yes I was stupid, but this honestly wasn't clear to me at first.