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It is pretty typical to split sensitive personal information (e.g. SSN, pay, health records, etc) from administrative activities (e.g. leave requests). In the event that the administrative side gets compromised, it will limit how "bad" that compromise might be, additionally they may be required to store sensitive information differently (e.g. better physical security, server-drive encryption, etc).


In a well designed system this kind of segmentation and isolation can be done in a way that is transparent to the user experience.

TL;DR Have your front end talk to multiple backends-


The front end is where it usually gets compromised


Then both passwords get captured on the front end.

There's no benefit to multiple accounts unless the more important one is used much more rarely.


but they share the same username and password on the different portal?


Is this using "TLDR" as a synonym for "hint"?


I'd guess it's just turning into "thing to put at the end of a post" much like "meme" became "picture with unrelated words on top"


Not being a dick. I'm genuinely curious about the evolving usage of words.


That's not what ADP is doing. :)




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