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by hackerboos 4861 days ago
That's "application specific" not machine specific. I'm not sure, other than IP address, how they could tell machines apart.
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I don't need them to be machine specific. What I expected was that a password issued (and immediately used) for e.g. authenticating to Gmail's IMAP service is then disqualified authorisation for any other Google service.
Could they create a fingerprint of the application logging in using the request headers and user agent and watch for a grater than n% change in that fingerprint?

Obviously a hacker could just copy the applications headers...