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Re: 2FA, was A Deep Dive on the Recent Widespread DNS Hijacking


From: valdis.kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 12:49:30 -0500

On Tue, 26 Feb 2019 08:36:11 -0800, Seth Mattinen said:
On 2/25/19 9:59 PM, Keith Medcalf wrote:
Are you offering an indemnity in case that code is malicious?  What are the
terms and the amount of the indemnity?

Anyone who is that paranoid should read the RFC and write their own TOTP 
client that lets them indemnify themselves from their own code.

I seem to recall that the 1983 Turing Award lecture referenced a 1974 pen test
of Multics that proved conclusively that level of paranoia isn't sufficient....


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