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markkum on July 2, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: BitAuth for Decentralized Authentication

Funnily; the reason to outsource is exactly about not putting all your eggs in the same shared basket. You outsource the 2nd factor and keep the first factor (passwords) in-house. Implementing everything in-house is a "same shared basket".

teacup50 on July 3, 2014 [–]

So you're dependent on a cloud startup for basic auth and you've got no more security than any other isolated two factor auth system.

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