What's going on with OAuth? - O'Reilly RadarOver the past week there’s been a variety of incorrect information shared about what’s going on with the OAuth protocol. Chris Messina (Google), Dick Hardt (Microsoft), Eran Hammer-Lahav (Yahoo!), and I (Facebook) wrote this post to help provide a bit more clarity. The OAuth protocol enables users to provide third-party access to their web resources without sharing their passwords; kind of like a
