Per TFA

Title: I Was Scammed Out of $130,000 — And Google Helped It Happen Heading: Google failed me in two ways Body: Google has become the vault of our digital lives — and that vault had cracks.

If Ford adds seatbelts and you decide to take them off because they annoy you; when get into a crash you can’t claim Ford failed you since the seatbelts weren’t forced upon you more.

Here are the two specific criticisms in the article:

> Phishing emails from “@google.com” made it into Gmail.

> Google enabled Authenticator cloud sync by default.

Both of these seem like fair points where one could reasonably expect one of the largest companies in the world to spend a tiny amount of money on security improvements which would make it harder to attack their customers. Not following Apple’s lead on security for Authenticator is especially disappointing since they have no shortage of good security engineers.