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Re: UM, WAIT, NO! said by cdru:In all fairness though, "working on" is not the same as "released", "works", or "is available". Presuming Comcast has webmail and/or a page for maintaining account information online, there is already a mechanism available for ensuring that the customer is a comcast customer, no matter what ISP they use to sign in from. I expect they may be working on a system whereby you can't post a username/PW on some web site and make the service available to anyone. Maybe making sure a username can't be used remotely by more than 1 connection at a time.
There are so many dishonest people out there that will try and take advantage of any hole in their authorization system. That may mean them doing due diligence on making the system as secure as possible.
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| said by Romney2012:I expect they may be working on a system whereby you can't post a username/PW on some web site and make the service available to anyone. Once that system get's implemented, I'm sure many different industries would love to get their hands on it. An authentication mechanism that guarantees you are authorized to access the system from anywhere, but prevents unauthorized users from ever acquiring or using compromised credentials. That's basically the holy grail of authentication.
Maybe making sure a username can't be used remotely by more than 1 connection at a time. That's actually pretty trivial to implement. I've already implemented that for several websites I've worked on and have used that system with banks i've had accounts. | |
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