At 03:09 PM 22/02/2012, Brian Weeden wrote:
Yes, Google was way ahead on the security front with forced https and
2-factor authentication.
Honestly, strong passwords are not that much of a protection - they are
still vulnerable to phishing attacks, which is why 2-factor is important.
Google does some other very good things. At the bottom of your inbox it
tells you when your last account activity was and where it was from (IP).
It tells you whether or not your account is open in multiple locations, a
history of all your account access and geographic locations, and the
ability to force signout of all other sessions than your current one. You
can also set it to alert for unusual activity, which means access from a
geographic place outside of where you normally access it. So if your
account is accessed from a place like Russia or China when you live in the
US, when you log in it will flag this with a bright red message on the
screen.
No question, Google does it better than Hotmail.
T
