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| author | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2010-09-23 16:05:43 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2010-09-23 16:05:43 -0400 |
| commit | aac1428491c850b74800f59926dcbc3c7bc6dd84 (patch) | |
| tree | cfce5253a1d64deaa60d8c762388da8cb963da9b | |
| parent | 95f7b2ffb11d014763f80a1b63450c08e7f5ff05 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/doc/news/openid/discussion.mdwn b/doc/news/openid/discussion.mdwn index a79a87989..c0447a13f 100644 --- a/doc/news/openid/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/news/openid/discussion.mdwn @@ -85,5 +85,8 @@ Yes. I'd only recently set up my server as a delegate under wordpress, so still ###Pretty Painless I just tried logging it with OpenID and it Just Worked. Pretty painless. If you want to turn off password authentication on ikiwiki.info, I say go for it. --[[blipvert]] +> I doubt I will. The new login interface basically makes password login +> and openid cooexist nicely. --[[Joey]] + ###LiveJournal openid One caveat to the above is that, of course, OpenID is a distributed trust system which means you do have to think about the trust aspect. A case in point is livejournal.com whose OpenID implementation is badly broken in one important respect: If a LiveJournal user deletes his or her journal, and a different user registers a journal with the same name (this is actually quite a common occurrence on LiveJournal), they in effect inherit the previous journal owner's identity. LiveJournal does not even have a mechanism in place for a remote site even to detect that a journal has changed hands. It is an extremely dodgy situation which they seem to have *no* intention of fixing, and the bottom line is that the "identity" represented by a *username*.livejournal.com token should not be trusted as to its long-term uniqueness. Just FYI. --[[blipvert]] |