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Session timeouts[1] provide great examples of #compliance disconnects from reality:
When booking for events it *always* takes *days* to get from registering for an event and getting there to show your QR or whatever. And while an attacker who hijacks your session has 0 benefit from accessing it for a prolonged time, somehow #security finds it crucial that users are auto logged-out after 30mins.
It would take just a *tiny* bit of thinking to avoid making things worse for everyone.
[1] https://wstg.owasp.org/latest/4-Web_Application_Security_Testing/06-Session_Management/07-Session_Timeout/ (congrats to #OWASP for breaking all your indexed links in search engines, also very helpful!)
When booking for events it *always* takes *days* to get from registering for an event and getting there to show your QR or whatever. And while an attacker who hijacks your session has 0 benefit from accessing it for a prolonged time, somehow #security finds it crucial that users are auto logged-out after 30mins.
It would take just a *tiny* bit of thinking to avoid making things worse for everyone.
[1] https://wstg.owasp.org/latest/4-Web_Application_Security_Testing/06-Session_Management/07-Session_Timeout/ (congrats to #OWASP for breaking all your indexed links in search engines, also very helpful!)
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