I've sent an email to all admins who do not have 2FA enabled. Hopefully we can get a good response rate, and in a week's time we can decide what to do if there are still some without 2FA.
On Thu, 2017-03-30 at 14:41 +0300, Doron Somech wrote: > Sounds good, can we start with admins only? > > On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 2:14 PM, Harald Achitz <[email protected] > om> > 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-authenticat > > > ion/ > > > [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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > zeromq-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev
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