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David Celis

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i love single sign-on. i love getting logged out of websites multiple times a day. i love getting emails with a link to log in instead of just using my password manager. i love having to get up to grab a physical device that i have to plug into my computer and touch just so i can use a website. i lo

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@davidcelis my favorite is the trip through multiple vendor sign-on flows, and providing my fingerprint to each one, sometimes on multiple devices, and all of the redirects from url to url to url to url. I'm sure it is all very secure and well designed.

@davidcelis i love having my password manager locked behind Okta authentication so that my employer can control my access to it and so that if for some reason I can't connect to Okta, my passwords are inaccessible

it would be a real shame if I just... didn't put my passwords in the employer-controlled part of the vault

@dandean
Thats not really fair, a lot of them are cross-origin iframes

@davidcelis

@davidcelis you just touched one of my trigger buttons.
We have Okta Verify at work.
Wanna log to Azure? Here's your push notification.
Wanna log in Citrix to access ServiceNow? Here's your push notification.. And this login comes from the United States..
Wanna do actual work and login to Github? Here's your push.

Sometimes is so bad that I have to do this every hour by the hour.

@davidcelis
I love the Microsoft single sign on where I want to check my build pipeline and the login forwards me the the azure portal and finally drops me at some weird Xbox store page for whatever reason.
Stuff ain't working!