Although technically available to anyone, Google has an "advanced protection program" for highly targeted accounts. It has the follow (may have missed some) effects on your account:
* locked to 2fa with security keys * limiting the set of apps that can access account data * better scrutinized account reset - i assume this means it makes your account more resistant to phishing on Google employee's part.
https://landing.google.com/advancedprotection/
Its nice that Google apparently makes this available to anyone who is willing to buy the security keys. It would be nice if all major social media services had such a program.
Not sure if this falls into the advanced protection for Google, but about a year or two ago, got a notification of a suspicious login from Moscow (I'm from the US and have never travelled out of North America). Promptly changed my password.
Re:Jack Dorsey’s account was hacked
by drivebycomment on Friday August 30, 2019 @07:07PM
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Yeah. At this point, any identity provider that doesn't support FIDO u2f is either incompetent or negligent or both.
"there are some accounts that could be compromised that would be very significant"
Trump? I'm not really being facetious when I ask what difference it could possibly make. Of course, sometimes his tweets do appear to move the stock market, but still.
On the other hand, it did make me consider that there are some accounts that could be compromised that would be very significant: Trump.