Ask HN: Microsoft crawls private links – how can this be legal?

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  • auth

    A JWT based API for managing users and issuing JWT tokens (by supabase)

  • > Microsoft scans to check the website contains malware. IMHO the security blunder is a self-implemented magic link.

    It's not self-implemented, you can check it out here: https://github.com/supabase/gotrue

    > Not password protected if the password is part of the URL.

    It's a token that's valid for a couple of minutes – just like a password reset token. Indeed, in the given implementation, it's the very same as the password reset token. If you consider this implementation as "not password protected", any website with a password reset functionality is "not password protected".

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