On Mon, 11 Dec 2017 18:14:41 +0000, Paul Moore p.f.moore@gmail.com wrote:
On 11 December 2017 at 18:03, Donald Stufft donald@stufft.io wrote:
So yea, it’s not as good as 2FA only everywhere, but the specific circumstances around these specific credentials makes it a reasonable usability trade off to allow them.
Cool. Security is always a usability vs security trade-off, and the main thing here is not to push the balance too far - we need to consider the potential issue of putting people off from contributing as well as the risk of security compromises. (Open source is a hobby activity for me - when it starts to feel too much like the day job, I start getting twitchy :-))
Indeed. If 2fa is required for contribution to CPython, I'll stop contributing. Granted, I haven't done many merges lately, but a few is a bigger number than zero :)
--David