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by ignoramous 1571 days ago
In the open? I believe u:pwd is HTTP Basic Auth, which is not "in the open" when over TLS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication#Se...

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~~It's still passing credentials for the entire account, rather than something explicity scoped to "just update these A records, and these A records only".~~

~~Also as the parent noted, Google have the last few years been very aggressive about "unsafe login" (using usr+pass outside of Google) and this might disappear.~~

Edit: Never mind, buried in the docs it appears the user:pass are scoped.