Before I do that, a caveat: every single time I see discussion on what these terms mean, it descends into arguments about the true meaning and mechanics of each. Let's start with defining some terms because they tend to be used a little interchangeably. Your email address is the skeleton key to your life (not just 'online' life) so protecting that is absolutely paramount. This post will be partly about 2FA in general, but also specifically about Google's program because of the masses of people dependent on them for Gmail. Per the title, not just any old 2FA but U2F and in particular, Google's Advanced Protection Program. This week, I wanted to focus on going beyond passwords and talk about 2FA. A few people took some of the points I made in those posts as being contentious, although on reflection I suspect it was more a case of lamenting that we shouldn't be in a position where we're still dependent on passwords and people needing to understand good password management practices in order for them to work properly. Linkedin sets this cookie to registers statistical data on users' behaviour on the website for internal analytics.Last week I wrote a couple of different pieces on passwords, firstly about why we're going to be stuck with them for a long time yet and then secondly, about how we all bear some responsibility for making good password choices. Hotjar sets this cookie when a user recording starts and when data is sent through the WebSocket. Hotjar sets this cookie when a Recording starts and is read when the recording module is initialized, to see if the user is already in a recording in a particular session. It stores the true/false value, indicating whether it was the first time Hotjar saw this user.

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