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Please don't act as an authority on security when you do not understand how something like a POST request works. What you're encouraging is forfeiting the site
by thirsteh 15y ago
Please don't act as an authority on security when you do not understand how something like a POST request works.
What you're encouraging is forfeiting the site's accounts in standard communication, of which you send many, many more than "Reset your password" emails (which should, but may or may not be triggered by a form that presents at least one security question), and which are fundamentally different than "account security" emails, for the sake of streamlining the user experience, i.e. saving the user from having to log in at all from new devices.
If any users forward any of these mails to anyone else, they've essentially given them complete access to their account--imagine if Facebook started doing that in their "You've received a new message". It's needlessly and inconspicuously compromising account security on a regular basis with no real win. (The idea wouldn't fare well in a proper risk evaluation.)
- itcmcgrath 15y agoI wish I could up vote this all day. This my first thought upon reading the article. If people designing websites are making decisions that are not really well thought out (like this), episodes like Sony will continue to happen. It really makes me sad. It also makes me angry.