Instead of 'Auth,' We Should Say 'Permissions' and 'Login'

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By BeauHDMay 28, 2024, 8:10 pm169 pts
The term "auth" is ambiguous, often meaning either authentication (authn) or authorization (authz), which leads to confusion and poor system design. Instead, Nicole Tietz-Sokolskaya, a software engineer at AI market research platform Remesh, argues that the industry adopt the terms "login" for authentication…

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