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Comment by aryan14

> “In case you're wondering, because the system treats this high-privilege recovery flow as a total account reset by the "true" owner, the original 2FA gets thoroughly bypassed in the process.“

This is false.

Important to note this did not work if your account had 2FA of any kind

e.g if you had a time based authenticator enabled, after the AI gave you the code to reset the password, it had no notable privileges beyond that

Tldr; if you had 2FA this wouldn’t work on you

parent aryan14 5 months ago

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