Tailscale founder: we chose pure OIDC over passwords before passkeys existed
davidcrawshaw · x · 2026-10-23
Tailscale co-founder David Crawshaw recalls rejecting passwords — "the original static secret sin" — at founding, opting for pure OIDC login despite its weaknesses as the lesser evil. He notes that email+passkey auth is now viable.
More from Infra
- SK Hyper in talks to fund envisioned $350B AI data center buildout in South Korea — dinabass · 2026-10-23
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash hits >1K tok/s decode with day-0 SGLang support across NVIDIA and AMD — MiniMax_AI · 2026-10-23
- MiniMax-M3.1-Flash goes open weights with day-0 NVIDIA NeMo fine-tuning up to 128 GPUs — MiniMax_AI · 2026-10-23
- RadixArk caught paying KOLs to coordinate quote-posts of SGLang announcement — EugeneVinitsky · 2026-10-23
- MiniMax partners with vLLM creators' Inferact for day-zero production inference of open models — woosuk_k · 2026-10-23
- Local LLM shootout: Flint 40B MoE vs Qwen3.8-27B on identical RTX A6000s — RichardSocher · 2026-10-23