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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/25/16 4:05 PM, Cantor, Scott
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<pre wrap="">True. The articles I read however argued that in general cookies are still
more secure and a better choice for security info since, unlike local storage,
you can and should set HttpOnly and thereby at least prevent the Javascript
XSS vectors.
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That is about the saddest thing I've read in a while.
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I'm not saying that they're right, only reporting what my (probably
small) sampling seemed to agree on. Still trying to understand all
the issues myself. There's a tradeoff either way: with local storage
you have to worry about rogue Javascript; with
cookies-as-bearer-tokens there's the problem with binding it to the
browser and legitimate user.<br>
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