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		almosthere 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure Finally someone said it. This is a relic from when a row in a database table for a session id cost about $400. I'm joking of course but that's what literally was on the mind of early internet engineers. The only company that fights this is Google and apparently tailscale.

MBCook 11 months ago | [–]

Microsoft does too. And Apple (but they’re not big in enterprise, of course).

Unfortunately lots of compliance people/orgs don’t seem to want to give it up.

eab- 11 months ago | [–]

The same Google that makes you log in again on like every other `gcloud` call? By copy pasting your password into the shell prompt?

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