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author | http://lovesgoodfood.com/jason/ <Jason_Riedy@web> | 2010-09-26 04:18:15 +0000 |
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committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2010-09-26 04:18:15 +0000 |
commit | 954b6353b029062418b911114baa9f86b216e44e (patch) | |
tree | 1c4b369718717c7d5214f811bee3a612d44a0d52 /doc/news | |
parent | 4846b4472ec69e95dd2cc0a792aaf7668367263d (diff) |
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diff --git a/doc/news/openid/discussion.mdwn b/doc/news/openid/discussion.mdwn index c0447a13f..fdd5eecd1 100644 --- a/doc/news/openid/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/news/openid/discussion.mdwn @@ -90,3 +90,5 @@ I just tried logging it with OpenID and it Just Worked. Pretty painless. If yo ###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]] +---- +Submitting bugs in the OpenID components will be difficult if OpenID must be working first... |