I wonder if it is not people being notoriously lazy or clueless at an astonishing degree. How often do you hear that password were saved in plaintext? Surprisingly high in this day and age.
People not knowing what salt and pepper is... Vulnerabilities almost as if on purpose...
Perhaps it is actually not THAT hard but just like error handling, people don't want to do the unsexy parts and want to delegate those tasks to someone else perhaps. There must be a behavioral pattern there...
Your comment has a bit of an inexperienced smell. Business auth infinitely more complex than saving a user and salting/hashing his password.
> There must be a behavioral pattern there...
The pattern is that your comment is very far from reality.
My point is that people mess up things as basic as salt and pepper, or encryption at rest. People are not even trying...
If we deal with the intricacies of rbac, abac, acl mixed with scopes ,sso, saml, oidc, mfa, etc... I don't find these too conceptually, complex.
I mean, it should be avoidable complexity. Most of the complexity is technical debt, bad implementations etc. But by itself it is not THAT complex.
> want to delegate those tasks to someone else perhaps
And this someone's name begins with "Cla" and ends with "ude".
So we're going to have a lot more vulnerabilities in the auth code going forward.
Apparently a mythos loop will mitigate that. /jk
We will see I guess... It could also be an opportunity to audit systems in automated ways.