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[Security] Various suggestions

The Internet is a place full of unique nooks and crannies, where you could make a new friend at every corner! Sadly, though, there's always risks at those junctions as well.

Even if not for anything but peace of mind, I think it might be beneficial to add some optional account security settings to the site.


These could include:

- Requiring someone to re-sign in when on a different device

- Requiring someone to re-sign in when at a [drastically] different location

- Enabling 2FA (email or app)

- Generating security questions

- Offering a choice of whether the user would have to sign in every time regardless of previous options

- "Whitelist" and "blacklist" certain IPs (default login we have now/always go through security process)

- etc. etc. might add more


...of course, some people would prefer not to have all those enabled, so having it be an opt-out function would probably be for the best.

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Support! Some of this feels like overkill, but I'm always a fan of 2FA.

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I'm hesitant about some of these. Having one we can opt out of is fine. I just don't want text messages about having to log into my account, when I bounce between my phone and computer.

Increased log in times and having a third party involved in logging into a pet site also just doesn't seem welcoming to me. I would be fine with security questions, as long as they weren't common ones that everyone's answered at some point due to the memes that go around.
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MFA, security questions, and expiring sessions are all fairly standard security practices, even for things like a petsite. Support, even if some are made opt-in for "user experience".

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