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Could someone tell me what happens when I login to a site from more than one flatform at a time? For instance if I log in from different computers? Is it bad for security? How does it affect things?

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    If you do log in to an account or access something from various places, it'll create those many session tokens and it depends on the network you're on, if it's secure or not.
    It doesn't really affect your security if whatever you're accessing is over an encrypted channel and a trusted machine
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    Thanks! I had this question because on some website I use, they wanted to make sure that users AVOID logging in from different platforms at once. So based on your input security wasn't really their concern... @justasithlord
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    But again, it's always better to minimize the number of active logins even though the network is secure and the machine is yours itself.
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    @ohmylacooon it's only required when the particular platform needs it's security, which is something you won't see on Facebook or Twitter but on some higher security sites like of some government
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    Is creating multiple tokens not good for some reason? @justasithlord
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    @ohmylacooon it's not, let's say you've logged in from three different machines and haven't logged out, so tokens lying around to be stolen is 3, which definitely increased the chances of you losing your access to the application you were logged into and someone else gaining it illegally
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    Ah so the tokens can be stolen
    ... But if I delete all my cookies and history, do the lying-around-tokens get deleted too? @justasithlord
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    @ohmylacooon if you do delete all the cookies and history, you mostly will get logged out of the application from that machine and thus making that particular token useless, in most of the cases
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    True! Thanks for passing the knowledge 👍 @justasithlord
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