Comment by ajross

Comment by ajross 4 days ago

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Yes, but that's not a bug with Google OAuth. If Taskrabbit (in the example) decides to trust dankstartup.com emails as a root of trust for identity even though the business failed, that's on them[1], and certainly nothing Google can have prevented.

The contention in the article is that dankstartup.com's new owners can leverage their control of the domain to get access to existing OAuth-based sessions that will look to the service providers as if Google has authenticated the account holder.

[1] And just to repeat: that risk is precisely why serious businesses (Vanguard in the example) don't allow obscure email domains as authentication anymore.