[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
https://it.slashdot.org/story/22/05/04/2028211/github-will-require-all-code-contributors-to-use-2fa says that Github will require two-fuctor authentication. That's not inherently bad, and in the absence of injustice it could be a good thing. However, in practice it is seems often to be implemented by imposing a choice of injustice A, injustice B or injustice C. For instance, requiring the user to run nonfree Javascript or other nonfree software. Or requiring the user to have a mobile phone. Can people please see what methods GitHub allows, and whether any of them is acceptable? GitHub already gets a failing grade for requiring nonfree JS code to create an account. According to my memory, it doesn't require nonfree JS code for usage once the account exists. That's where this change could make GitHub quantitatively much worse. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
