Two Factor Authentication for paid subscription.

[JohnLocke]

Hello fellow members,

Today we have introduced Two Factor Verification for Mentor Group Gold and Mentor Group Light as well as Silver Membership.

Why did you do it?
For a long time, we had a feeling that people share their login details somewhere and that some mentor group members operate password sharing platforms.

You can imagine that this hurts our business and the forum in general, for that reason we have enabled 2FA (Two Factor Verification) for all paid subscriptions.

For the regular paying member it should not be a problem since 2FA is widely used almost everywhere to secure systems worldwide.

We are looking into more measures to get rid of free loaders and hope soon to introduce a more and secure way to avoid such login sharing.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

 

[JohnnyDoe]

So now you can reduce the subscription fee, right?

 

[JohnLocke]

Compared to what you may do from your business in profits, I think the subscription fee is the smallest of your problems

But I can tell you that it isn't cheap to run this community nor is anyone here driving a Ferrari! should we get back to the number of subscribers that we had before we got this "mystery" feeling than we may consider new initiatives

 

[Marzio]

nor is anyone here driving a Ferrari

Right, you have to pay Dembe to drive your Benz

 

[JohnnyDoe]

I don’t think there is a definitive solution to this problem. It must be the same affecting P**N sites.

 

[Sols]

Good move. All valuable or sensitive accounts should be protected by 2FA anyway so this is both in the forum's and the users' best interest.

 

[Martin Everson]

Hummm I almost got locked out. The email I use for the forum is no longer valid as I have not logged into that account for maybe a year.

Note to self use email account more often .

 

[fortunespeculator]

Is the 2 FA based on google authenticator??

 

[Sols]

Is the 2 FA based on google authenticator??

Seems to work with most TOTP apps, including Google Authenticator and Authy.

 

[VESTANON]

Kudos @James Spader , an all important update..2FA Secure sure in good stead

 

[JohnnyDoe]

You could have built a web3 platform that requires a digital signature (via blockchain wallet)

 

[Houdini]

Good move in the right direction

 

[fortunespeculator]

Is the 2 FA based on google authenticator??

This is a good initiative then by the admin.Cheers!!!

 

[clemens]

Don't underestimate security

 

[Forester]

Good move. All valuable or sensitive accounts should be protected by 2FA anyway so this is both in the forum's and the users' best interest.

True. It's also true that 2FA is annoying in many cases. But there is no free lunch

Why did you do it?
For a long time, we had a feeling that people share their login details somewhere and that some mentor group members operate password sharing platforms.

FMPOV, if you have the reasonably backed evidence that someone is doing this, such “a member” should be banned forever (and digitally kicked into a*s). It is extremely unfair and as such it should be treated.

You can imagine that this hurts our business and the forum in general, for that reason we have enabled 2FA (Two Factor Verification) for all paid subscriptions.

Fully understandable, unfortunately.

For the regular paying member it should not be a problem since 2FA is widely used almost everywhere to secure systems worldwide.

Well, yes – and it is in many cases annoying .
I only hope that the possibility of e-mail authentication will be preserved (although it is perfectly clear to me how it can be misused); not everyone (including me ) uses a smartphone or some special authentication hw.

We are looking into more measures to get rid of free loaders and hope soon to introduce a more and secure way to avoid such login sharing.

I will also think about it (I am a little bit oriented at this field, too )

We apologize for any inconvenience.

=OK=

 

[JohnLocke]

Thank you for all your comments and feedback, much appreciated!

 

[koohl]

Awesome improvement!

 

[GPT]

Is this also the reason on why I had to change password?

 

[JohnLocke]

Is this also the reason on why I had to change password?

Yes we set a global password reset at the same time for security reasons.

 

[JohnnyDoe]

So now many people can no longer access to their accounts