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Re: South Africa On Lockdown - Coronavirus - Update!


From: Michael Thomas <mike () mtcc com>
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2020 15:08:35 -0700

I don't know about Fido, but i've been making that point about Oauth for a very long time. As a browser mechanism which implements a sandbox it's fine. But when you have apps that can reach out of the sandbox it is definitely not fine.

Mike

On 3/23/20 2:59 PM, Keith Medcalf wrote:
Both Fido and OAuth2 are inherently insecure.

While they may be better than nothing at all, they are only very slightly better than proper password selection and 
management.



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