On Oct 2, 2008, at 11:51, Alan Burlison wrote:

> Simon Phipps wrote:
>
>>>> So what content is it that you're worrying about enough to force  
>>>> me to log in every time I visit OS.o each day?
>>>
>>> Source code.
>> So protect the source code. Burdening every community interaction  
>> with the site is surely not an essential consequence?
>
> You have a single log in to the site, the same credentials are used  
> for both editing web pages and managing access to source code.

Right. And I only want one log-in. What I'm suggesting is that you  
don't age the credentials uniformly across the site. Rather, I am  
suggesting that you age them aggressively in areas where the leverage  
gained by abuse is strong (e.g. changing SSH keys) and age them very  
casually elsewhere. I once again assert that it's a bad choice to  
burden every interaction simply to protect a very small minority of  
interactions.

S.

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