Sorry for the geek post…

  • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
    542·
    1 year ago

    This really isn’t enshittification. Things are not being made worse just to drive someone else’s profit. There isn’t the big fido2 key lobby pushing this in the background. This is a security measure to improve security on a highly technical website that is the target of lots of attacks.

    Its annoying and inconvenient, sure, but not making a service worse to drive profit.

      • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
        142·
        1 year ago

        Dead Sea levels…

        Microsoft / Github do a ton of shitty things, straight up enshittification textbook stuff… spoiled for choice really… just not 2fa.

  • Bilb!@lem.monsterEnglish
    202·
    1 year ago

    I don’t think so. Enforcing two-factor auth to be allowed to do certain things with an account just makes sense. It’s definitely not an attempt to squeeze profit out of users per se, but rather an attempt to limit liability and the risk of costly support problems caused by passwords being compromised.

    • m-p{3}@lemmy.caEnglish
      31·
      1 year ago

      I think it’s even more important with contributors of large projects and libraries used by a vast amount of software out there.

      It’s not inconceivable that someone’s account gets hijacked, and someone uses their trusted account to add a small snippet of malicious code in a commit, enabling a supply-chain attack.

  • pikasaurX4@lemm.eeEnglish
    192·
    1 year ago

    Which part of this is infuriating you? The fact that a message is popping up or what it’s asking you to do? Or is it the fact that it’s all in comic sans? Honestly, 2FA is a really simple way to greatly improve security on your account. I’m no expert, so maybe it’s got major flaws that I don’t know about, but just set it up really quick and choose to remember your device. Now you’ll never need to worry about it and you won’t see this message

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
      112·
      1 year ago

      I’ve had numerous accounts of people getting my password through a breach or something and 2fa being the only thing that stopped them from getting into my account. On GitHub that’s my strongest logins, don’t know why anyone would be against securing their code

    • Rhaedas@kbin.social
      3·
      1 year ago

      Unless you use a VPN/browser security addons (don’t know which breaks it). The “register your device” has never stuck for me. But it’s not a big deal even then, just another step as long as there are a few options to choose in case one method isn’t possible at the time. The “are you a robot” ones though…I really need to get a bot to solve the ones that still pop up for me (definitely VPN).

    • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      14·
      1 year ago

      I think what’s infuriating me is that it’s an inconvenience that’s being paternalisticly imposed on me. That’s what makes it feel like enshittification. I don’t really care that much about the security of my account, and having to find my phone and wait for an app to open is just a hassle that I’d prefer to avoid. The fact that they unilaterally decided what ought to be best for me is what annoys me I guess.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    2FA is enshittification now?

    I mean… I guess in a way it is a symptom of it, if you consider the growing concern of hacking part of enshittification and this, a method of stopping or at least slowing an attack down, being a product of that.

    It’s more of an anti-enshittification device that just comes with a slight bit of shittiness in the form of another step to logging in.

    • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      13·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, it just winds me up when sites impose these bits of shittiness on you without allowing you to opt out. Because I was happy to sacrifice a bit of my account’s security for convenience

      • Ignotum@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        Keepass (open source password manager) can auto-fill not just username and password, but also generate and fill in one-time codes

        Reduces the security the 2FA provides, but after i started using that it was pretty much zero extra effort to log in

  • hanna@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    I was more annoyed at the ssh key requirement lol, I know it’s more secure etc etc but im not working on anything sensitive, it’s just annoying

    • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Not sensitive for you. But GitHub has started to look at supply chain attacks. So I’m popular module which isn’t very sensitive is used biological projects that are. The account that maintains the module is exploited and that causes lots of havoc

    • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      Yeah exactly, this is what I mean. I still haven’t figured out how to set that up so I have to paste the key in from my password manager every time I want to push. I hate when they paternalisticly decide what ought to be best for me

  • planish@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    It isn’t enshitification in the sense of trying to make the platform make money, but it is throwing up new roadblocks in the way of using the platform. It makes it harder to just show up, register, and post code. It creates multiple tiers of users who have different privileges on the platform. And from here it would be easier to move to, with some of the same justifications, some sort of requirement to pay for code hosting.