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I don't feel the need to go beyond SMS/TOTP MFA for my personal, private, security. I can just call my banks and recover if I lose my phone and SIM somehow. Ho
by Dayshine 6y ago
I don't feel the need to go beyond SMS/TOTP MFA for my personal, private, security. I can just call my banks and recover if I lose my phone and SIM somehow.
However, I have an open source project with at least a thousand users who could be severely harmed by both compromise of my account (malicious code changes) or loss of my account (having to fork without being able to update the original).
With this change, in order to protect my users I have to go beyond an anti-compromise standard of MFA to an anti-loss standard of MFA (e.g. by buying many physical devices). I also have to be constantly vigilant as if I mess up and break my MFA, lose that piece of paper, have my house burn down, I harm many people.
So, do I choose to disable MFA, and risk my users machines being compromised?
Or do I enable MFA, and risk my mental health?
Or do I just stop supporting this open source project?