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Okta and Auth0 Blocking Cuba, Iran, N Korea, Syria, Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk

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Re: Okta and Auth0 Blocking Cuba, Iran, N Korea, Syria, Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk

#31

Don’t offload authentication to third parties… People didn’t learn their lesson from Facebook etc etc.

This is very different than Facebook. This isn't a company that also happens to provide auth to get more tracking for their main product. The auth is the main service for okta and it's used by people making decision about whether they want to build this in-house or outsource it.

Re: Okta and Auth0 Blocking Cuba, Iran, N Korea, Syria, Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk

#33

Oh, nice, my company is just integrating Okta. Is Cuba still being punished for daring to host Soviet missiles? I think the way we've treated them is really terrible.

It's vitally important that America defends Batista, the Czar, and the Shah.

Re: Okta and Auth0 Blocking Cuba, Iran, N Korea, Syria, Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk

#34

Oh, nice, my company is just integrating Okta. Is Cuba still being punished for daring to host Soviet missiles? I think the way we've treated them is really terrible.

Wait, are we the baddies (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn1VxaMEjRU)?

Re: Okta and Auth0 Blocking Cuba, Iran, N Korea, Syria, Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk

#35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At this point, Cuba is stuck being a chip in presidential politics to win Florida’s electoral votes.

Meaning if commerce with Cuba was not ban it would be a threat to Florida’s economy?

Meaning there are many Cuban refugees living in Florida who hate the Communist regime and will not support a President who does not continue the sanctions. No political party wants to lose Florida, therefor politicians have a good reason to continue US policy.

Re: Okta and Auth0 Blocking Cuba, Iran, N Korea, Syria, Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk

#37

So it turns out that when you outsource auth, you also outsource some of the governance on who can access your platform. Isn't access control a set of patterns rather than a service? When did it stop being a core competency of web applications?

I’m curious to know if there are any oss alternatives for similar services.

keycloak

Re: Okta and Auth0 Blocking Cuba, Iran, N Korea, Syria, Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk

#38

Oh, nice, my company is just integrating Okta. Is Cuba still being punished for daring to host Soviet missiles? I think the way we've treated them is really terrible.

Cuba exports terrorism and misery across the region. The dictatorships in Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua fly under the radar these days, but are no less noxious to humanity than the regimes in Russia, Iran, NK, etc.

You can argue whether or not sanctions are an effective way to promote regime change, or if they just hurt the regular citizens of rogue governments. I think they are often quite ineffective.

But there's no defending the Cuban regime.

Re: Okta and Auth0 Blocking Cuba, Iran, N Korea, Syria, Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk

#39
- "The Office of Foreign Assets Control ("OFAC") of the U.S. Department of the Treasury administers and enforces economic and trade sanctions based on U.S. foreign policy and national security goals against targeted foreign countries and regimes, terrorists, international narcotics traffickers, those engaged in activities related to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and other threats to the national security, foreign policy or economy of the United States."

That last clause has also encompassed things like Hague prosecutors [0]. If your interpretation of these regulations depends on your assessment of the trustworthiness of the regulator, this is a very relevant datapoint.

Imagine major tech companies geoblocking United Nations offices. Is that far-fetched fantasy?

[0] https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/12/14/us-sanctions-internation... ("US Sanctions on the International Criminal Court")

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