Re:Klarna users are being signed in to random accounts
by jstummbillig on Thursday May 27, 2021 @07:15AM
(#27301577)
What could a competitively convenient way to do this better look like?
[ Parent
| on HN ]
Re:Klarna users are being signed in to random accounts
by tialaramex on Thursday May 27, 2021 @07:39AM
(#27301790)
You can generically solve the problem of Alice giving David access to Bob's service on her behalf without giving Alice's credentials for Bob's service to David using stuff like OAuth2, this is already how lots of things work today.
In OAuth2 David only ends up with some token showing Alice authorised David to use this service on her behalf. Bob can tell David and Alice apart, and choose to restrict what David can do appropriately.
If Bob is particularly tired of this nonsense, and his customers like Alice keep giving David their credentials and then are surprised that doing so means Bob can't tell Alice and David apart, WebAuthn reifies it so that most users in Alice's position can now see where the problem is. When David tells Alice he needs her Yubikey to access Bob's service, it should occur to Alice that giving the Yubikey to David isn't a good idea because then she won't have it any more. Good.
Re:Klarna users are being signed in to random accounts
by ThePhysicist on Thursday May 27, 2021 @07:21AM
(#27301626)
I think PSD2 is supposed to solve these problems with a less insane approach, but the rollout seems to be quit sluggish.
Re:Klarna users are being signed in to random accounts
by mping on Thursday May 27, 2021 @09:11AM
(#27302657)
Surprisingly, there are already integrations in my home country; I took a look at tink [1] some time ago (no affiliation whatsoever) and they look legit. I'm sure there are more SaaS like them.
Re:Klarna users are being signed in to random accounts
by jagger27 on Thursday May 27, 2021 @07:25AM
(#27301668)
https://plaid.com/ does it well.