Sounds good, can we start with admins only? On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 2:14 PM, Harald Achitz <[email protected]> wrote:
> As a user: please make it an requirement for write access to have 2factor > auth. > > Thanks for having this idea and doing this initiative! > > Regards > Harald > send from my fairphone > > On Mar 30, 2017 12:37 PM, "Luca Boccassi" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> There have been news recently of attacks targeting developers using >> Github, and whose account is part of organizations [1]. >> >> Github has been offering 2 factor authentication [2] for quite some >> time now, with options including a free TOTP phone app like the Google >> Authenticator or inexpensive U2F hardware tokens. >> >> It is well known that having 2FA enabled greatly reduced the chance of >> having an account compromised, and the damage in case it happens. >> Dragnet-style attacks become much less effective, and directly targeted >> attack to compromise both a machine and a token have to be deployed in >> order to be effective. It is simply put, a really good idea to use 2FA. >> >> In the Github ZeroMQ Org we have 114 members, of which 35 have admin >> permissions. >> Of the 114 members, 59 do NOT have 2FA enabled. Of the 35 owners, 15 do >> NOT have 2FA enabled. >> >> In case one of the members (especially an admin) had the account >> compromised, real damage could be caused. >> >> So I would like to propose to enforce the use of 2FA, starting with the >> admin accounts [3]. I can email the individual accounts asking to do >> so, in case they do not monitor the mailing list. >> >> What do you think? Any objections? >> >> Kind regards, >> Luca Boccassi >> >> [1] https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/03/someone-is-putting- >> lots-of-work-into-hacking-github-developers/ >> [2] https://help.github.com/articles/about-two-factor-authentication/ >> [3] Github has a setting to make it mandatory for an organization, but >> I'm not proposing to use that just now, as it will automatically kick >> anyone who does not have 2FA, which is too extreme and not necessary at >> the moment. >> _______________________________________________ >> zeromq-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev >> > > _______________________________________________ > zeromq-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev >
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