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Saml vs. Oath

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While researching for this assignment, I came across a lot of good points about each access control measure, along with some bad points. Each measure was implemented with the best intentions for the user. The fact that it simplifies log on procedures is a big factor. Security-Assertion Markup Language is an XML based open standard for exchanging authentication and authorization data between security domains. Open Authorization allows you to use a common username and password to access different sites. These sites are linked together in one form or another to share information on these sites. Now granted not all information on the sites are shared, but some things such as address book, what you read, watch, or even sometimes your …show more content…

They could theoretically go into your Facebook account and change your password, locking you out of it. That is a downside to OAUTH. It grants the website certain permissions to post something on Facebook on your behalf. What I mean by this is if you have your Yahoo account linked to Facebook and you read an article, Yahoo will post something on Facebook saying you recently read a certain article. Granted Yahoo gives you an option to show friends on Facebook what you read or not, but websites such as SocialCam do not give you that option. If you watch a video on SocialCam it will show on Facebook what you watched. The reasons behind these actions are so friends will drive friends to read potential stories and to drive people to the websites to gain more viewers. So they essentially use your Facebook to further their website. Also websites can use recent trends from your Facebook page to try to entice you with advertisements. The advertisements may proclaim that friend of yours on Facebook uses a certain product, or is interested in certain things that you may be interested in. Now which one do I prefer? Personally they both have their downsides, but for ease of access I actually prefer OAUTH. IT has its flaws, but so does any software or ease of access program. Depending on how it is used, I would prefer to use it only to access certain websites where I

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