Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Remove resume feature to prevent abuse?

[John Sullivan]

Ineiev <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 12:43:13AM -0400, John Sullivan wrote:
>> 
>> What are the benefits to removing inactive accounts?
>> 
>> I named one, which is security.
>
> I don't think I understand the threats in question very well.
>

I am not the expert on Savannah's specifics here, but in general two
security risks from old accounts are:

1) people re-use passwords and usernames on multiple sites. The impact
of any breach is magnified by the number of accounts; so it is a
needless risk magnifier to have lots of old unused accounts around

2) old abandoned accounts that have commit or other kinds of access pose
increased security risks to the projects themselves, because it tends to
be true that their credentials are not as well protected by their
original owners 

-john

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