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Securing PyPI accounts via Two-Factor Authentication - The Python Package Index Blog

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PyPI will require all users who maintain projects or organizations to enable one or more forms of two-factor authentication (2FA) by the end of 2023.

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What Security Tokens For 2FA Say About FOSS Consumers

Recently, PyPI announced that they would force everyone that maintains a project or an organization on the platform will have to enable 2FA. This is one more step in the direction of strongly protecting the package providers and their users. I am not opposed to it. But it made me think of the discussions we have around FOSS about reciprocity and unfair burden1. And about double standards. And how it is hard to make corporations understand the upside of Open Source, and how diffuse it is. Let’s talk about security tokens, 2FA, and how corporations do not understand their place in the FOSS ecosystem. I do not think PyPI do this here, they seem to have taken the decision ↩

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