nderground
1 min readApr 17, 2019

As far as I know, to authenticate with Twitter using Cognito you have to use the OAuth API. I have never done this.

I generally have a philosophical objection to OAuth. I feel that the subtitle for OAuth should be: “OAuth: get hacked once, get hacked everywhere”.

The closest that I’ve gotten to something like OAuth is a feature in nderground.net that allows users to invite people from their Google contacts.

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nderground was a social network designed for privacy. nderground.net never took off and has been shut down. See topstonesoftware.com and bearcave.com.

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