Google have added a new feature to GMail that allows you to view a history of logins to your email account, including time, browser type and IP address. Whilst this is a nice idea (and something I hope will become more commonplace), all it achieves is allowing you to see if your account has already been hacked, rather than providing extra protection in the first place.
Whilst this might be a fairly geeky feature request, I've often thought it would be nice if some online services that you really don't want to be hacked (e.g. Internet banking) offered some advanced option where you could restrict the IP addresses that could be used to access them. I know that I will only ever be accessing some services from a small number of static IPs, so doing so would provide an additional layer of protection.
It would also be nice if you had some visibility on brute force attempts to access your accounts (e.g. dictionary attacks). It might scare some people into changing their passwords to something a little more secure.
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