Re:Ask HN: Developer abused “sign in with GitHub”?
by anon84873628 on Friday December 09, 2022 @10:05AM
(#33921961)
GitHub is Microsoft. And as a provider of developer tools, weird to see such apologism for their inability to structure oauth scopes correctly and provide effective unambiguous UX for user consent.
Let alone banning the user instead of the client app...
Re:Ask HN: Developer abused “sign in with GitHub”?
by winkeltripel on Friday December 09, 2022 @08:18AM
(#33920901)
> Also, it operates at a scale that makes such validation infeasible.
It's a choice to be at such scale that github cannot validate 3rd party auth. Gothub should accept fault for these incidents if they are not going to validate their partners.
It's the exact same as third party sellers shipping counterfeits on Amazon. Choosing to achieve massive scale leaves quality, validation, and consumer protection behind.
Furthermore, the audience of Github is decidedly more technical than a government website or social media platforms. IMHO it can be expected that its users step through authentication flows a bit more carefully.
Github should act more decisive when applications turn out to be malicious though. The Laissez-faire policy of frictionless integration of applications has to be balanced with effective procedures to react to malicious uses.