Re: Google signin

> On 12 Jul 2017, at 16:52, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
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> On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 4:48 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us <mailto:tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>> wrote:
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> I don't mind reducing barriers to entry when we can, but recent experience
> says that there has to be some barrier :-(
>
> Definitely. But unless we want to whitelist email providers (and exclude google), we already have that problem, and I don't think this is actually maknig it any worse.

I don’t think this will change anything for malicious users, but will make it
easier for legitimate ones. When implementing this at $job-1 we didn’t see any
change re scammers/spammers, they are on top of these sorts of barriers already
(others are needed).

cheers ./daniel