Authorizing link work once only and are limited in time.
Brute force won't success on tokens of this length, esp. as I set a
limit for accessing them.
An attacker with a similar success could try to find token of a valid
cookie at any website.
And why would you forward your authorizing link? It's like emailing
your password to someone else.

Anything I miss?


On Mar 11, 7:28 am, Zaky Katalan-Ezra <[email protected]> wrote:
> You give access to whom ever have the link from the email.
> If I forward this mail to some one else you  still recognize him as me.
> If you use authorizing links like 
> thishttp://WhenDidYouLast.com/OIHOIUE9009OI8KHHHEF/
> to identify your users it's possible to scan for url's like this ad probably
> find one that work.

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