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Google will offer a physical security key to upgrade two-factor authentication for certain high-profile users:
The Alphabet Inc. company next month will begin offering a service called the Advanced Protection Program that places a collection of features onto accounts such as email, including a new block on third-party applications from accessing data. The program would effectively replace the need to use two-factor authentication to protect accounts with a pair of physical security keys. The company plans to market the product to corporate executives, politicians and others with heightened security concerns, these people said.
The Gmail messages of John Podesta, Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign chairman, were famously hacked last year, along with the databases of the Democratic National Committee. Podesta met with the House Intelligence Committee in June to discuss the hack.
[...] The new service will block all third-party programs from accessing a user's emails or files stored on Google Drive, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the product isn't yet public. The program will be updated with new features to protect user data on an on-going basis.
(Score: 2) by arslan on Tuesday October 03 2017, @09:54PM (1 child)
I think that ship has long sailed. I haven't viewed them as that original company that touted that slogan in a long time, they're just like any other big mega corp chasing profits - and in some sense worse because one of their main product is privacy.. but like I said, they aren't the one that created the elitism you speak of, yes they're capitalizing on it but that's the way the market works and within the law (until proven otherwise).
(Score: 1) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Thursday October 05 2017, @03:55PM
Nice points. I think it's OK to keep waving that flag, though, since they grew while making such claims. For whatever that's worth. And you're right, it's the way it works and it's not a question of morality. But if one make a claim to morals, morals may thus make a claim back on them - even if quixotic.
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