FA). This reduces the chance that your account will be hacked, but not everyone uses the function.
With two-factor authentication, you also need an extra unique code or confirmation to log in in addition to your password.
2FA means that in addition to your password, there is a second confirmation of your identity. This can be done, for example, by sending a text message or a notification on your phone to prevent a hacker from logging in with just your password. Usually, you enter such confirmation when you log in on a new device, after a long period of inactivity or from an unusual location.
Google now says it will automatically enable two-step verification for users who are ‘technically ready’, it says in a blog post. At the same time, users who already do so are asked to confirm again.
That being technically ready is not really clarified in Google’s blog post. But to Motherboard, the company clarifies that these are users who already use their account on multiple devices and have a recovery method not simply to be excluded from their account. The intention is to expand this to more users gradually. If you do not want that, you can switch off 2FA again.
Google isn’t the first to emphasize the importance of 2FA. In general, tech companies and security experts have been recommending for years to provide an extra login confirmation, especially for accounts with sensitive information.
For example, if a hacker can retrieve the password of your mailbox, they can also obtain other accounts by, for example, requesting a new password via that hacked mailbox.Aaron Chapman’s latest book, The Last Gang in Town, was launched at the Biltmore a couple of weeks back. I didn’t make it to the launch, but did manage to catch up with Aaron last week and interview him about the book.
I also enjoyed reading about the years when the Clark Park Gang was the most infamous of Vancouver’s “park gangs.” They were always brawling with police and others. They became the focus of a special police task force that the gang dubbed the H-squad.
Aaron also put me in touch with former gang member Danny “Mouse” Williamson who told me that he always figured their lives in the 60s and 70s would make a good book.
Growing up in East Vancouver, Danny “Mouse” Williamson was taught to be tough and stand up for himself, even against the police.
“We didn’t trust the police. My dad had been arrested for different things. 
Now 63 and living in Grand Forks, Williamson is one of the original members of the Clark Park Gang that battled both police and rivals from other Vancouver “park” gangs in the 1960s and 1970s.
The story of the infamous Clark Park Gang has been told by Vancouver writer and historian Aaron Chapman in his new book The Last Gang in Town.
Chapman interviewed Williamson and other former Clark Parkers and pored over news archives, police records, court transcripts and other documents in researching his latest book.
He also interviewed retired Vancouver police officers charged with disrupting the gang, which could mobilize hundreds on short order for a street brawl.
Chapman said in an interview that he’s been interested in the history of the Clark Park Gang since the 1980s.
“As somebody who was born and raised here, I’d thought about it in high school since the night I was at a house party where people who were apparently the Clark Park Gang showed up and trashed the place and beat up a bunch of people and I escaped out a back window,” Chapman said.
In fact, the party crashers were just using the name of the mythical gang, which had largely dispersed by the late 1970s.
What he learned was that the Clark Parkers emerged from Vancouver’s east side when the city was very different than today.
Other gangs named after their neighbourhood parks — Riley, Dunbar, Bobolink — were no match for the tougher, bigger group of teens and young men based in the park between 14th and 15th Avenues and running from Commercial Drive almost to Clark Drive.
Chapman takes his readers through some critical events that put the Clark Park Gang on police radar.
At a Vancouver telethon in February 1970, Clark Parkers fought with Riley Park gang members live on TV. They were also part of a huge brawl at the Seafest, which was broken up by mounted police. When a large Gastown protest erupted into a riot in August 1971, the Clark Park Gang was front and centre.
A couple of months later, Williamson and others from his gang attended a concert at the Pacific Coliseum that was supposed to feature Chuck Berry.  Audience members began throwing bottles of booze smuggled in.
Williamson was one of several guys who ended up on the stage as objects flew.
In June 1972, as the Rolling Stones played the Coliseum, Williamson and some of his gang-mates joined hundreds of youth outside the venue attempting to get in at the last minute.
Riot police were on hand as tensions mounted. Soon, rocks, bottles and even Molotov cocktails were hurtling threw the air. Several police and rioters were injured.
Williamson said that police always pointed the finger at the Clark Park Gang.
“They blamed us for everything,” he said.
Following the Stones riot, the VPD formed a special undercover task force that the Clark Parkers dubbed the Heavy Squad or H Squad.
Gang members told Chapman that they were beaten and harassed by the H-Squad.
Williamson said he was one of those victimized.
The H-Squad was disbanded a few months later after claiming to have broken up the gang.
Williamson was in and out of prison for a few years.
But he later moved out of the Lower Mainland, reconnected with his Métis heritage and began doing community work.
Christina Hopkinson's novel is a wry look at modern-day marriage, totally. Christina Hopkinson, author of the book 'The Pile Of Stuff At The Bottom Of The Stairs', tells you the top ten things that women hate.
Christina Hopkinson's novel is a wry look at modern-day marriage, totally honest, often funny and at times, alarmingly familiar. All too often it is the tiny irritations in life that make the most impact on how we are feeling; the wet towels left on the floor, the piles of loose change and crumpled tissues on the kitchen table, and yes, the pile of stuff at the bottom of the stairs. Ms Hopkinson throws in a few crude/mildly shocking moments seemingly in an attempt to get the reader re-focused. Christina Hopkinson, author of the book 'The Pile Of Stuff At The Bottom Of The Stairs', tells you the top ten things that women hate about men, reports the Daily Mail.
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Christina Hopkinson has wittily and very realistically tapped into the zeitgeist - literally the most relevant novel for a working mother since. Frankly, it bored me. Too many chapters with nothing but whinging and criticism. Pile of stuff? Too right.
Christina Hopkinson has wittily and very realistically tapped into the zeitgeist - literally the most relevant novel for a working mother since I Don't Know How She Does It by Allison Pearson. Plum Sykes, author of Bergdorf Blondes).
In THE PILE OF STUFF AT THE BOTTOM OF THE STAIRS, Hopkinson pens a hilarious and acutely-observed novel about marriage, motherhood, children, and work.
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This is the set-up of Christina Hopkinson's novel. Unfortunately it is also the solitary plot point on its linear landscape. Characters don't develop, they just plod inevitability towards the horizon on which the "twist" looms large, through a narrative distinguished only by the inclusion of surely one of the most laughable pieces of survival advice ever committed to paper: "How do you tell the difference between a mushroom and a toadstool?" Answer "You just know. Like choosing a lover.
 Mary doesn't know whether it's the way he doesn't quite reach the laundry basket when he throws his dirty clothes at it (but doesn't ever walk over and pick them up and put them in), or the balled-up tissues he leaves on the bedside table when he has a cold, or the way he never quite empties the dishwasher, leaving the "difficult" items for her to put away. Is it that because she is "only working part-time" that she is responsible for all of the domestic tasks in the house? Or, is it simply that