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Comment by brongondwana

I'm assuming you have 2FA turned on already.

It sounds from what you're saying like you (and at least a few other hacker news posters) want is an even stricter "no seriously, I promise I won't ever screw up" mode.

We try not to have those kinds of modes, because (for example):

https://ianix.com/pub/dnssec-outages.html

It turns out, black and white security models lead to massive losses of availability when people screw them up - and people do. Though I have to confess to being amazed to see Tony Finch amongst the recent "oops". NASA is maybe not so much of a surprise.

Having said that - if there's enough demand, that would be a worthwhile feature. Accounts that aren't being used are cheap for us to run, and that flag would make the security team's job really easy - just say "no, go find your own way in" without having to review anything!

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