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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Why The Attack on Buffer Was A Serious Wake-Up Call
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Why The Attack on Buffer Was A Serious Wake-Up Call For The Web
http://j.mp/HwYZdY (Programmable Web)
"End-users must also recognize that, despite the best intentions of
those stakeholders and the imprimaturs of widely-used federated
credentialing technologies like OAuth, there's no guarantee that their
identities cannot be stolen and abused for impersonation.
Vulnerabilities exist, especially as a result of the implementation
decisions that vary from developer to developer and API provider to
API provider."
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