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Comment by tonymet

Yahoo published these findings over 20 years ago , that frequent re-auth made customers less secure because it encouraged poor password hygiene like short passwords, writing them down, etc.

It's also risky to have the primary password credential transmitted instead of temporary tokens.

parent tonymet 1 year ago

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