From: https://id.koumbit.net/anarcat Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 19:49:18 +0000 (-0400) Subject: link to indieauth and mention existing problems with this approach X-Git-Tag: 3.20150610~74 X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/commitdiff_plain/5d49b5c1158e4869196ea516d8899b7b512b5900?hp=370261e715ab53e9630e2c209e478c4b87bf14c6 link to indieauth and mention existing problems with this approach --- diff --git a/doc/todo/emailauth.mdwn b/doc/todo/emailauth.mdwn index a164b783b..fa1995712 100644 --- a/doc/todo/emailauth.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/emailauth.mdwn @@ -99,3 +99,7 @@ adminusers can be converted, perhaps automatically, to use the email addresses on record. Thoughts anyone? --[[Joey]] + +> I had looked at something like this before, through [[todo/indyauth_support]] - which basically turned out to outsource their own auth to http://intridea.github.io/omniauth/ and http://indiewebcamp.com/RelMeAuth... +> +> But it seems to me that your proposal is basic "email opt-in".. the one impact this has on (drupal) sites i know is that spammers use even those forms to send random emails to users. it's weird, but it seems that some bots simply try to shove victim's emails into forms with the spam data as they can and hope for the best... it seems this could be vulnerable as well... - [[anarcat]]