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    The password anti-pattern
    Design patterns are useful. They enable us as developers to encapsulate recurring interactions and refine them. From simple pagination right up to Ajax requests, patterns allow us to codify...

Adactio: Journal - The password anti-pattern

Asking users for their Gmail/Hotmail/Yahoo email and password to find their friends is bad: “it’s a horrible precedent that teaches users to be phished”