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@ -98,14 +98,6 @@ could store this information rather than calling `POST /login` at all. This does
While `POST /register` does work, it is impactical as the sole method of fetching an access token.
Most appservices
which do not implement encryption do not store this information as neither the device_id or access_token are needed f However critically
this means that bridges will need to be designed to store the access_token and device_id from the point of creating the user,
so older bridges would be unable to get an access token for existing users as `POST /register` would fail.
It would difficult to log out these tokens if they got exposed additionally, as the AS would not be able to fetch a new access token.
Furthermore, the ability to generate access tokens for real users who registered elsewhere would not be possible with this mechanism.
## Security considerations
Appservices could use this new functionality to generate devices for any userId that are within its namespace e.g. setting the