PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: 2FA NOW MANDATORY - YOU DON'T NEED A PHONE NUMBER FFS

[Abu Antar]

So, uh, how do you find and search these data breaches? Curious what they have on me tbh

https://haveibeenpwned.com/

I was only pwned 852 times, so I'm good.

 

[Raghar]

So, uh, how do you find and search these data breaches? Curious what they have on me tbh

https://haveibeenpwned.com/

Isn't the best part of that site that people who are going in are selected as possible targets?

 

[Sunri]

im losing it...

 

[Camel]

Admin be like.

 

[ciox]

Bargaining phase: maybe it can be at least... less often than every 30 days... your supreme highness...

 

[ciox]

This also happened to dextermorgan last month.

There are butthurt lunatics in the Ukraine War thread who WILL try to find your credentials in database leaks and break into your account. You have been warned.

A forum glitch (quality coding there) has locked me out of the Ukraine thread forever so can I please be excused from 2FA now?

 

[Infinitron]

This also happened to dextermorgan last month.

There are butthurt lunatics in the Ukraine War thread who WILL try to find your credentials in database leaks and break into your account. You have been warned.

A forum glitch (quality coding there) has locked me out of the Ukraine thread forever so can I please be excused from 2FA now?

What glitch?

 

[Melcar]

This also happened to dextermorgan last month.

There are butthurt lunatics in the Ukraine War thread who WILL try to find your credentials in database leaks and break into your account. You have been warned.

A forum glitch (quality coding there) has locked me out of the Ukraine thread forever so can I please be excused from 2FA now?

What glitch?

Being retarded glitch.

 

[Hell Swarm]

Bargaining phase: maybe it can be at least... less often than every 30 days... your supreme highness...

Can I second this? Once every 90 days or even once a year would be better.

 

[Nathaniel3W]

Once a decade? Once a century? If we need 2FA, I vote for that. As though this were a democracy, and we didn't all bow the whims of our benevolent overlords.

I'm not going to bother looking through 56 pages of history to see if someone already asked. And if I was the one who asked, I guess I didn't care enough to remember. Did we have a problem with hackers or bots or something? Why the 2FA at all?

 

[ciox]

Some dude had his account broken into and the "hacker" then (manually? one by one?) deleted posts made from that account, so now everyone is buck broken forever.

 

[ciox]

This also happened to dextermorgan last month.

There are butthurt lunatics in the Ukraine War thread who WILL try to find your credentials in database leaks and break into your account. You have been warned.

A forum glitch (quality coding there) has locked me out of the Ukraine thread forever so can I please be excused from 2FA now?

What glitch?

Being retarded glitch.

Actually a correct assesment as it turns out.

 

[Nathaniel3W]

ciox Thanks for the explanation.

You would think if someone could hack into someone else's Codex account, he would have something better to do with his time than delete posts manually and one at a time.

 

[Hell Swarm]

ciox Thanks for the explanation.

You would think if someone could hack into someone else's Codex account, he would have something better to do with his time than delete posts manually and one at a time.

Seems a very minor issue TBH. I was going to say maybe it's to curb CP spam, which reddit does to forums with free speech. But I signed up fine and don't remember any restrictions after I got a post accepted so that's hardly protection from a redditor going wild.

 

[Pyrite Pachyderm]

ciox Thanks for the explanation.

You would think if someone could hack into someone else's Codex account, he would have something better to do with his time than delete posts manually and one at a time.

Seems a very minor issue TBH. I was going to say maybe it's to curb CP spam, which reddit does to forums with free speech. But I signed up fine and don't remember any restrictions after I got a post accepted so that's hardly protection from a redditor going wild.

It fucked up the threads. Pages loading out of order, not being able to go to a specific page. All this because a spook couldn't keep his password safe.

 

[Hell Swarm]

ciox Thanks for the explanation.

You would think if someone could hack into someone else's Codex account, he would have something better to do with his time than delete posts manually and one at a time.

Seems a very minor issue TBH. I was going to say maybe it's to curb CP spam, which reddit does to forums with free speech. But I signed up fine and don't remember any restrictions after I got a post accepted so that's hardly protection from a redditor going wild.

It fucked up the threads. Pages loading out of order, not being able to go to a specific page. All this because a spook couldn't keep his password safe.

Well the 2 factor isn't helping for that. If I have access to your password here I might have access to your email password too. Not enough people vary them up. So I'd just auth myself to delete every post I ever made

 

[Peachcurl]

ciox Thanks for the explanation.

You would think if someone could hack into someone else's Codex account, he would have something better to do with his time than delete posts manually and one at a time.

Seems a very minor issue TBH. I was going to say maybe it's to curb CP spam, which reddit does to forums with free speech. But I signed up fine and don't remember any restrictions after I got a post accepted so that's hardly protection from a redditor going wild.

It fucked up the threads. Pages loading out of order, not being able to go to a specific page. All this because a spook couldn't keep his password safe.

Also, as a result, the whole forum started to have hickups. I'm pretty sure he didn't just delete posts one by one.

 

[Nathaniel3W]

OK, so all of these problems were started by an alleged hacker who logged in and started messing with the forum.

So now with 2FA we can be absolutely certain that it's a legitimate forum user and not a hacker the next time someone starts deleting posts and breaking the forum.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

So now with 2FA we can be absolutely certain that it's a legitimate forum user and not a hacker the next time someone starts deleting posts and breaking the forum.

You would think if someone could hack into someone else's Codex account, he would have something better to do with his time than delete posts manually and one at a time.

Presumably, the person abusing someone else's account did so with the intention of causing the forum software to glitch. I've been hoping that the Capable Collective Codex Psyche would have found an alternative measure that would prevent this sort of abuse without imposing such a burden on Codexers, but nothing feasible has been proposed thus far.

 

[Zombra]

You would think if someone could hack into someone else's Codex account, he would have something better to do with his time than delete posts manually and one at a time.

Yeah, computer hackers that elite are usually too busy brushing a rose against their cheek, cradling a laughing child, deciding which lover(s) to visit tonight, etc.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

It happened because of a serial-rating argument in the UkrainexRussia thread, nobody involved has ever seen a day of work in their life

Not just one guy either

 

[Crispy]

Well the 2 factor isn't helping for that.

Except it hasn't happened again since we implemented 2FA.

 

[Crispy]

Also, as a result, the whole forum started to have hickups.

This is not true. It only affected the threads that had posts deleted from them.

 

[Zombra]

Well the 2 factor isn't helping for that.

Except it hasn't happened again since we implemented 2FA.

 

[Crispy]

I see absolutely nothing wrong with running RPG Codex via Homer Simpson logic.