
Episode 376: Justin Richer On API Security with OAuth 2
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Do You Really Need to Change Your Passwords?
The OAuth token based model allows you to basically create a new credential that represents just that piece of delegate software working for that user instead of that user. So when you come to audit logs and figuring out what went wrong, exactly, it's just this user logged in and we only know it's that user because we saw their password,. But it might not have been them because it might have been a piece of software that they had typed their password into 12 months ago. We really have no way to tell the difference. Okay. And I also just wanted to touch on something you mentioned real quick, if I may take a quick aside. Yeah, sure. You mentioned changing passwords like we
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