I tend to trust easy to revoke, well tried auth mechanisms over someone's home-grown version—especially judging by e.g. playstation network's terrible history. I simply don't trust Nintendo to not require me to reset my password with a breach, and I'm lazy as hell.
Yikes, I had no idea who Monte Davidoff was. I've actually read his floating point routines! This is embarrassing; I wish I could edit my other post still.
Anyway, my point stands—Bill started as a coder, good enough to code on the pdp-11(?); Steve never was one.
Who uses their "main" Google account for these one off services anyway? I can't imagine it would be too popular to keep pseudo-anonymity. you don't want to post lol cats from the same account you use to send your resume, I would think.
Is that a rhetorical question? Probably 99% of people playing this game who sign in using Google use their main (only) Google account. I'm sure it never even occurred to them to make a second one for something like this -- that would just be a hassle.
Why not just create a separate google account if one's so eager to play?