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Re:We Reverse Engineered 16K Apps by izacus on Monday January 16, 2017 @03:49AM (#13408871)
Isn't that what OAuth keys are explicitly there to PREVENT? Letting application developers unlimited access to your accounts on their backend servers.
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Re:We Reverse Engineered 16K Apps by kranner on Monday January 16, 2017 @05:01AM (#13409124)
I didn't mean this for scenarios where the user has an account with private content with the third party (e.g. Twitter), but for e.g. a common backend resource such as sending an error report to developers for user-facing errors.
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