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Discussion on: Why Is a Social Login More Secure?

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Rohit Jacob Mathew

Very true. A known con with the system. The ideal situation is to have everyone using a password manager with 2FA setup, but a large portion of internet users today are still stuck on reusing their username/password across sites. In my opinion, OAuth is a good step up for those users and slowly getting them to a more secure setup like a password manager with 2FA is the next step.

I was also reading an extremely interesting thread on twitter on using Ethereum as a way to implement single sign on.

@k776 just to clarify this article is a primer into why OAuth is a good step up from username/password and how it works internally.