When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

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A comprehensive developer guide to implementing secure authentication in modern applications. Covers OAuth 2.0, OIDC, ...