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zaidf on June 14, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: If you develop web apps, don't do this.

Plentyoffish emailing you your password.

OKCupid sending login token'd links

Notice the trend? When you're a dating website, engagement trumps security in many cases. But if you are a bank or any service with some liability, you're probably going to play it conservative as you should.

sneak on June 14, 2011 [–]

"Engagement trumps security" holds true for 99% of the sites this audience builds. There's a reason I used Foursquare as an example.

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