As someone with one of those "high risk" accounts, one time passwords would
be more likely to make me drop those permissions.  Any administrator has a
"high risk" account given the opportunities that they have.

Risker/Anne


On 7 August 2014 07:59, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote:

> I think we should start looking at alternative authentication systems
> especially for high risk accounts. There are several variations on the
> theme of one-time passwords that I think could bd explored.
>
> Pine
> On Aug 6, 2014 11:05 PM, "Brian Wolff" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On Aug 6, 2014 8:57 AM, "svetlana" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, 6 Aug 2014, at 21:49, Andre Klapper wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 2014-08-05 at 22:05 -0700, Pine W wrote:
> > > > > After reading this [1] I am wondering if Wikimedia should start
> > taking
> > > > > steps to reduce reliance on usernames and passwords.
> > > >
> > > > What "steps" do you refer to, or is this intentionally vague?
> > > > Disallowing usernames and logins?
> > > > Two-step authentication/verification?
> > > > Something else?
> > > >
> > > > andre
> > >
> > > from what i could read and parse:
> > > use less of external things like skype and google accounts
> > > so that there is only 1 username for everything
> > >
> > >
> >
> > The solution to stolen credentials is to combine all credentials so that
> a
> > single credential can control everything?
> >
> > --bawolff
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