Tuesday, July 05, 2005

OpenID is working

OpenID is now up and running on LiveJournal. While this may save a lot of people some keystrokes and memorization during their average day, it does not seem secure enough for important identity verifications (banking, credit cards, car insurance etc.) But that's not the idea anyways. OpenID really could cut down on the number of usernames/passwords each internet user maintains. It could save a ton of time/frustration. While it could be used for evil (which is addressed in the OpenID "How's it Work" section), who cares? As long as you're using it to post comments and blog, so what? Message boards already allow people to fake identities and seriously, how easy is it to get a free webmail account at www.pickyourfavoritewebmail.com?

I will be following this one closely, mosdef.

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