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Google 2-Factor Auth and App Specific Passwords

Public service announcement. If you turn on Google’s two-factor authentication, you’ll probably bust a bunch of your non-Web apps. John Martellaro helpfully explains how to deal with RSS readers.

After you turn on Google’s 2-Step authentication for your account, your RSS readers on your iPhone and iPad will fail to connect. Here’s how to quickly fix that.

Generalizing to other apps is left as an exercise to the weblog reader.

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