Aaron Parecki

OAuth is a standard for protecting an app from being stolen or copied by other people.

Independent servers talking to each other using standard protocols to enable communication? I thought we just called that the web.

But yeah, I get the need for a marketing term to describe how this is something different than what folks are typically used to.

The internet has lots of websites that other people can use. There are password-protected websites, but if you forget your password, you have to contact the site owner to get it. OAuth 2.0 makes it easier for people to use these websites because their passwords won’t get lost.

Signed HTTP messages - before & after.
Presented by @justin__richer at the #OAuth @secworkshop 2021

What’s everybody’s plan for Junior year of the pandemic?

I want someone that's only job is to carry and keep track of my sd cards.

The assumption that people will have consistent access to the same mobile number simply isn’t true for a lot of people. Phones cost money. So do phone plans. Phones break or get stolen. We all know this. Yet people who don’t have phones still need access to their email accounts.