The past five years have witnessed a seemingly unending series of high-profile account take-overs. A growing consensus has emerged among security practitioners: even long, randomly generated passwords aren't sufficient for locking down e-mail and other types of online assets. According to the consensus, these assets need to be augmented with a second factor of authentication.-arstechnica
Article recommending security key technology for second factor authentification. Multifactor Authentication needs be enabled on important accounts to make it harder for hackers to gain access to an account.
That said I believe means to link accounts, with encrypted long term backups, directly to one's person should be created, such that if one provides, say dna or several biometrics and multiple identifying documents one recovers the account no matter how it was compromised.
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