[HN Gopher] Deprecation Notice: Recover Accounts Elsewhere
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       Deprecation Notice: Recover Accounts Elsewhere
        
       Author : ameliaquining
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2021-10-18 20:07 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (github.blog)
 (TXT) w3m dump (github.blog)
        
       | londons_explore wrote:
       | That's a very quick depreciation timeline...
       | 
       | Do you think this feature has some unfixable security issue?
       | 
       | Or perhaps there are only a handful of users?
        
       | tialaramex wrote:
       | Following some more details, I get to an actually reassuring (to
       | me anyway) claim:
       | 
       | "Warning: For security reasons, GitHub Support may not be able to
       | restore access to accounts with two-factor authentication enabled
       | if you lose your two-factor authentication credentials or lose
       | access to your account recovery methods"
       | 
       | Given that I use GitHub to _publish_ code, I can 't lose access
       | to the code - it's published - but I would worry that other
       | people might be able to impersonate me and e.g., publish an
       | update with a backdoor. Or the hypothetical impersonator could
       | write racist garbage in every GitHub issue tracker they can find
       | until the account is terminated, which hurts my reputation.
       | 
       | I think I feel the same about lots of other things. This HN
       | account for example. Amazon. Facebook.
       | 
       | Probably not my bank, and not my government. I want the
       | government to be willing to eat the cost of verifying that yup,
       | I'm me - and never pretend that if that's too expensive it's
       | somehow not their problem. It's disgusting for example that a
       | Tory government destroyed records of who this country had invited
       | from the West Indies in the 1940s and 1950s, then, knowing it no
       | longer had those records, tried to deport people who had no proof
       | of citizenship, arguing they must have come here illegally and
       | should be sent "home" to a country they'd not seen for seventy
       | years...
        
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