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Magic links are great because they essentially eliminate ATO attacks and allow startups to bypass SAML requirements by delegating to the mail provider. I’m 100% willing to forgo efficiency gains of passwords and managers as both a user and developer.

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All you're doing is punting your security to my email provider. It's annoying how many companies assume I have absolute trust in my ISP/Google/Miscrosoft/IT.

> essentially eliminate ATO attacks

They kinda increase the blast radius of an ATO attack on your email account, though.

Replying too late, most likely. But with access to your email account someone could reset your password to what they want it to be and gain access.

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