Wired reports that Google has rolled out its Advanced Protection service, where personal Google account users can require the use of FIDO U2F Security Keys.

“This is basically an extremely heavy-duty way of locking down an account,” says Joseph Lorenzo Hall, the chief technologist for the Center for Democracy and Technology. “Even for people with very limited technology chops, this is a way for them to have an extremely protected profile.”


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