Wed, 13 Apr 2016 10:10:58 -0500, »Q« wrote:
By default, Google only accepts OAuth 2.0 authentication. Enabling
access by what Google calls "less secure apps" just lets you (or your
SeaMonkey) use other methods of secure authentication to log in to your
Gmail account.
Except for Google itself, I don't think there's anyone claiming that
using authentication methods other than OAuth 2.0 reduces security.
It might be considered more secure as the password is not stored on
the client but just some access token which is not life-time, valid
only for use by the given client application, and users could always
review and revoke it, when they log in to the "central" account
management interface (Google).
It's widely believed that Google made OAuth 2.0 the only method
available by default simply to try to force people to use Google
products to connect to Gmail; I dunno.
Dunno, given I'm now using SeaMonkey to connect to Gmail using OAuth2.
--
Stanimir
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