Jeremy Keith warns devs and users on sign-up permissions

Developer Jeremy Keith has written on his website about the ongoing trend of sites asking for write permissions to social networks during sign-up processes and users giving it to them. He singles out Twitter, and notes that many services are asking for write permissions that they don't actually need, despite Twitter itself now making it relatively easy to separate out read and write permissions for Twitter authentication. He argued services aren't providing enough of a justification for their actions, but also that users need to be far more aware, in order to safeguard their accounts.

.net spoke to Keith about what developers and users alike can do to improve this aspect of authentication.

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