Re: Wiki 2FA

On 01/23/2016 03:49 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> writes:
>> On 01/23/2016 03:35 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> I doubt it would help much unless we required a 2FA auth cycle for
>>> every single edit, which I for one wouldn't stand for.  Reasonably
>>> user-friendly policies like one auth a day would still be plenty
>>> easy for spammers too.  (They've got phones too ya know.)
>
>> Bummer, o.k. Although it seems that spammers only go after easy targets.
>
> I dunno.  I was astonished that they came back a second time after we'd
> once thrown them off and cleaned up the mess; you'd think they'd realize
> that that would just happen again.  I think it may have been an
> intentional attack on the PG project as such, not just drive-by spamming.
> (If so, and if the goal was to complicate our lives, they succeeded.)
>
> Or maybe I'm just too paranoid.

Hrm, do we have the IPs that they were coming from? Were they from a 
specific block? Or GEO region? I hate the idea of blocking login from a 
region but it may be an unfortunate reality.

Sincerely,

JD

>
>             regards, tom lane
>


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