On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 03:05:33PM +0100, Mario Lang wrote: > Andrew Pollock <apollock@debian.org> writes: > > > I'm inclined to agree with Russell Coker[1], in that Debian should use > > something like RSA tokens to control access to Debian resources. > > > > Given that use of project funds for something like Dunc-Tank was already > > demed inappropriate, maybe the project will consider this a more suitable > > use of some of its funds? > > If you are refering in this mail to these little thingies which display > a number whenever you press a button, the day that Debian will > start to use these things for serious stuff is the day that I will quit > the project. As a blind individual, such security mechanisms would > totally disable me frm working with the system, and at that point, > I'd have to quit. > > In my opinion, RSA tokens are very evil, from an accessibility point of view. > Since you effectively state that only people with working eye-sight > are competent enough to use your system. Hey, wow, that's a perfectly valid accessibility issue I'd never thought of. I'm personally curious how they (i.e. the likes of RSA) deal with that situation, so I might just have to ask them... regards Andrew
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