Log in to StackOverflow with your smartphone

Posted by brennenHN on Tuesday February 05, 2013 @01:25PM
from the blog.clef.io dept.

http://blog.clef.io/post/42364199828/log-in-to-stack-exchange-with-clef

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Re:Log in to StackOverflow with your smartphone by habosa on Tuesday February 05, 2013 @01:31PM (#5172287)

This is a game changer, or at least a huge step in the right direction. I shouldn't have to wait for individual websites to make systems like this, third parties like Clef should handle it for everyone.

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Re:Log in to StackOverflow with your smartphone by brennenHN on Tuesday February 05, 2013 @01:33PM (#5172308)

We totally agree. Having every site try to re-implement and keep up with security best practices is a waste of time, money, and makes it hard to trust anyone online.

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Re:Log in to StackOverflow with your smartphone by rasca123 on Tuesday February 05, 2013 @02:01PM (#5172476)

Current login systems are as fragmented as anything else I can think of on the web

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Re:Log in to StackOverflow with your smartphone by philipbjorge on Tuesday February 05, 2013 @02:12PM (#5172553)

Congratulations guys! I added the clef plugin to my wordpress blog as soon as I found out about it - it's working great.

Stackoverflow was one of the sites I wanted to see this working on!

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Re:Log in to StackOverflow with your smartphone by aba_sababa on Tuesday February 05, 2013 @01:33PM (#5172320)

This is very awesome, congrats Jesse and team!

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Re:Log in to StackOverflow with your smartphone by ibotty on Tuesday February 05, 2013 @04:46PM (#5173458)

i don't know. why should i trust clef?

the google two-factor authentication can be run on your own server. can clef be run w/o clef? i don't think so.

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