RE: Memos, keys and passwords, Balrogs and Fields of Despair. Be safe. Almost $100k wasn't.

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Memos, keys and passwords, Balrogs and Fields of Despair. Be safe. Almost $100k wasn't.

in steem •  8 years ago 

Too many 3rd party websites ask me for my Steem keys. This is a ubiquitous bad practice encouraged by the community. steemit.com needs something like an oauth - a single secure protocol to manage access without the need to disclose the keys.

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The answer is: SteemConnect v2

This is great! I never realized there's actually a working solution. Thanks for pointing it out!

I agree. I want to test out the many interesting services built on top of Steem without trusting them with my Steem keys yet.