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Twitter, OAuth vulnerability, and service interconnectedness

It’s ironic that the day that my post on integrating Twitter OAuth (and other third-party authentication) appeared that a vulnerability in OAuth would be identified.
I didn’t write about the potential hassle that site owners will endure when third-party services become unavailable due to bugs or other problems, but it’s a huge consideration for web developers. [...]

Read the full article → April 23, 2009

Use Twitter, Facebook, OAuth or OpenID for login?

Now that OAuth is officially available for accessing the Twitter API, it’s technically possible to use Twitter’s services as an authentication method for logging into your web site. In fact, when setting up a new Twitter OAuth application, there’s an option suggesting that very use.

This is not a new concept, but with the recent proliferation [...]

Read the full article → April 22, 2009