Re: [edbrowse-dev] Two Factor

[Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org>]

Karl Dahlke wrote on Fri, Jul 20, 2018:
> Ok, so somehow you've made a separate imap password, how the hell is that any more secure than the password you use for your account?
> Either way an email client is sending over a password. It's just a password.
> This looks like bogus bull shit to me.

It's a bit bull shit, but the advantage is that you can (should?) have
one separate password for each computer / phone / campfire (for mail
over smoke signal!); so that if your phone gets stolen you can disable
that phone's password and create a new one.

Also, the generated password will be more complicated than "passw0rd"
(harder to guess than what most people would pick naturally) and doesn't
give access to the main web account, so when adding these three points
up it's arguably better on the grand scale - so that the password that's
very often stored in plain text in a config file like our .ebrc will
only give access to mails and not to google calendar or whatever it is
people do with their gmail account.


Can't say I can relate much to any of the arguments I just gave here,
but I can understand that they would encourage people to do this.
Now if they disable the old method though I'm not sure what we should do
though, probably will have to spend a bit of time figuring why it thinks
our browser is not supported...

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Dominique