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Passwords are only verified on login. Does it seems reasonable that there are millions of logins to Gmail from mobile devices every second?

Back of the envelope: 2 million logins per second would mean about 170 billion logins per day. With 7 billion people on the planet, that'd mean about 25 logins per day from each man, woman and child.



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