Brian Krebs has written a blog post about how Google has been using security keys to neutralize phishing of their employees. It stops the phishing quite well but comes at a high cost. No, not the hardware cost of a security dongle, it's the cost of losing third-party mail applications like Thunderbird and their add-ons like Enigmail.
I have been using Advanced Protection for several months now without any major issues, although it did take me a few tries to get it set up correctly. One frustrating aspect of having it turned on is that it does not allow one to use third-party email applications like Mozilla’s Thunderbird or [others]. I found this frustrating because as far as I can tell there is no integrated solution in Gmail for PGP/OpenGPG email message encryption, and some readers prefer to share news tips this way. Previously, I had used Thunderbird along with a plugin called Enigmail to do that.
(Score: 3, Disagree) by richtopia on Thursday July 26 2018, @12:36AM (2 children)
Unfortunately email addresses do not transfer like phone numbers. When I was young I signed up for Gmail addresses for my primary correspondence. Now, after 14 years that email is critical to communication. I have my own domain and personal email, but I have struggled to migrate everyone to a new email address.
Now, if Gmail ever drops IMAP support, I will finally break those ties. I probably would do it today if I didn't need an account with Google Play for work.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @10:32AM (1 child)
Use email forwarding. Then gmail is essentially just another MTA delivering to your personal mail as final destination.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday July 26 2018, @05:03PM
It's actually a better solution, because you benefit from Google's spam filters.
Give me a 2018 update, I haven't tried for a while: how much spam do you get every day, after self-hosting for a year or so?