"Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> writes:
> On 01/23/2016 03:35 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I doubt it would help much unless we required a 2FA auth cycle for
>> every single edit, which I for one wouldn't stand for. Reasonably
>> user-friendly policies like one auth a day would still be plenty
>> easy for spammers too. (They've got phones too ya know.)
> Bummer, o.k. Although it seems that spammers only go after easy targets.
I dunno. I was astonished that they came back a second time after we'd
once thrown them off and cleaned up the mess; you'd think they'd realize
that that would just happen again. I think it may have been an
intentional attack on the PG project as such, not just drive-by spamming.
(If so, and if the goal was to complicate our lives, they succeeded.)
Or maybe I'm just too paranoid.
regards, tom lane