Do you have anything specific in mind? Hard to say how feasible something is/evaluate without being more specific.
Most non-password alternatives that I can think of (e.g. Having public private key pairs or something) have the problem that they can't really be integrated well enough into a web browser based environment that folks other than the most technical of users find them an acceptable burden. --bawolff On 8/7/14, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think we should start looking at alternative authentication systems > especially for high risk accounts. There are several variations on the > theme of one-time passwords that I think could bd explored. > > Pine > On Aug 6, 2014 11:05 PM, "Brian Wolff" <bawo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Aug 6, 2014 8:57 AM, "svetlana" <svetl...@fastmail.com.au> wrote: >> > >> > On Wed, 6 Aug 2014, at 21:49, Andre Klapper wrote: >> > > On Tue, 2014-08-05 at 22:05 -0700, Pine W wrote: >> > > > After reading this [1] I am wondering if Wikimedia should start >> taking >> > > > steps to reduce reliance on usernames and passwords. >> > > >> > > What "steps" do you refer to, or is this intentionally vague? >> > > Disallowing usernames and logins? >> > > Two-step authentication/verification? >> > > Something else? >> > > >> > > andre >> > >> > from what i could read and parse: >> > use less of external things like skype and google accounts >> > so that there is only 1 username for everything >> > >> > >> >> The solution to stolen credentials is to combine all credentials so that a >> single credential can control everything? >> >> --bawolff >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
