D Github contributors - enable 2 factor authentification

Chris via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Aug 11 04:13:08 PDT 2016


On Thursday, 11 August 2016 at 07:59:11 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:

>
> Yeah, I worry about being locked out as well. There's also 
> nothing private in the dlang repository, but a malicious person 
> could just delete everything and it would be a major problem 
> for us to recover from that.
>
> They do provide an option for a second phone (which I enabled) 
> and sent a set of recovery codes. This you can put into your 
> safety deposit box as a last resort.
>
> I keep a rolling set of backups, with one set in the safety 
> deposit box.
>
> 2FA is going to become increasingly common, and I expect we'll 
> all have to get used to it.

You could also set up an "unsuspicious" dummy repo on Github 
which is an identical twin of the official D repo, under a 
different user and repo name ("Balter Wright", Digital Neptune :)


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