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Isn't there are rather obvious solution to this "problem"? When we need to be clear, let's call authentication and authorization... authentication and authoriz

• spiderice 2y ago
  The solution to authentication and authorization being hard to keep straight is to keep using authentication and authorization? How is that a solution?
  • baronvonsp 2y ago
    They're distinct words that say exactly what they do. They're only hard to keep straight if you haven't taken a few minutes to understand the underlying concepts (and, in a field of complex and nuanced concepts, these are hardly the most difficult). Replacing widely-used terms with new not-quite-overlapping terms turns 2 things into 4 things and is not a solution to anything.
  • jmull 2y ago
    ...the article is about the ambiguity of the word "auth". You're talking about something a bit different. But I've found that when people have a hard time keeping authentication and authorization straight they are mostly having a problem distinguishing the concepts, not really the terms. I really doubt using alt terminology, which is also already heavily overloaded, is going to help.