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Why Your Social Website Should Support OpenID (avdi.org)
1 point by raganwald on April 13, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



The fact that this person can make both of these arguments simultaneously makes me chuckle:

I don’t have to spend even a millisecond wondering about how good their password security protocols are...

...

I don’t have to use some 3rd-party program or Firefox extension to generate and manage random password, only to be locked out when I have to access the site from a public terminal and my thumbdrive is in my other pants.

If I'm going to be typing passwords on a public terminal, the last thing I want to be using is OpenID. With OpenID, the keyboard sniffer running on that public terminal sends all of my logins to the Russian mafia, not just one.




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