Companies Advise Tighter Security After Honan Hack 99
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from the add-another-security-question dept.
from the add-another-security-question dept.
In the wake of the hacking of Mat Honan's accounts, Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple are just a few of the companies making their security policies tougher, and they are advising people to do the same. From the article: "Even as those companies’ teams moved to patch the holes, others moved to offer security tips. Matt Cutts, head of Google’s Webspam team, used his personal Website to urge Gmail users to embrace two-factor authentication.
'Much of the story is about Amazon or Apple’s security practices, but I would still advise everyone to turn on Google’s two-factor authentication to make your Gmail account safer and less likely to get hacked,' he wrote in the August 6 posting."
Re:Feels like post-911 (Score:3, Funny)
God, this thing annoys the hell out of me.
I need to write a userscript to auto-skip the page.
I AM NEVER GIVING YOU MY CELLPHONE NUMBER, I DON'T AND NEVER WILL HAVE ONE, I DESPISE THEM.
TAKE THE HINT GOOGLE.
I swear if this leads to more messages about this, I am just switching e-mail services.
My password is longer than the brain cells of most people who use Gmail, it ain't getting brute forced any time soon.
And I'm not someone stupid who runs fart.exe for funny fart noises.
They should just have an option in the settings where you can straight-up state "I am not a stupid person" so they won't treat you like a god damn 5 year old.
Every year that passes websites seem to get more insultingly simple. When is it going to be over? When will the web die? Will it be soon? Please tell me it will be soon!