Wow… there’s been some debate over whether Google’s response to the whole Chinese hacking episode is just posturing, but more recent news seems to suggest that they’re seriously pissed at the Chinese government. And now comes the news that they’ve added code to show users when an account is accessed from an unexpected geographical area — useful to everyone, but quite obviously added to block the Chinese government from spying on those who disagree with it.
I doubt it will have a major effect on the Chinese, since they will just need to go through a proxy in the geographical area of their target to get around it, but it does point to one seriously ticked off company. And I, for one, wholeheartedly approve.
For a while they’ve had a feature that says what the last ip was that accessed your account, and at what time. This just makes it more user-friendly.
You have to be pretty paranoid to check your IP address every time you log in, and to recognize what your IP address was the last time you did. This way is a lot better.
True enough. You know, you’re making sense. Stop scaring me. 😉
Oops, sorry. I’ll try to stop. 😉