My favorite solution to the password problem is BitAuth2017. I believe that Spectre / Meltdown can't beat PoW, but I'm not 100% sure of the details.
On 4 January 2018 at 17:29, Denny Vrandečić <[email protected]> wrote: > I often get emails that someone is trying to get into my accounts. I guess > there are just some trolls, trying to login into my Wikipedia account. So > far, these have been unsuccessful. > > Now I got an email that someone asked for a temporary password for my > account. > > So far so good. What I am wondering is whether that password reset trial is > actually even more dangerous now given Spectre / Meltdown? > > Thoughts? > > (I probably should set up 2FA right now. Have been too lazy so far) > > Happy new year, > Denny > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
