OpenID According to Dave
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Really well illustrated explanation! I just love this kind of whiteboard sketches, I always understand concepts the fastest by that way.
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Another problem is that passwords are systems codes, so we shouldn't expose a user to too many of them. See PasswordlessLogin on MeatballWiki.
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OpenID is a SCAM run by Google etc to OWN you online identity,
OpenID is anything but open, unless you consider your identity being owned by Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Twitter to be open.
If your OpenID is an email address or username, you are already OWNED!
Warning: OpenID can and do cancel ids without any notice, meaning you instantly lose all you content and connections.
If you use OpenID they OWN you online life.
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Great video....
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There is of course some devopment involved, but the beauty is that the programmers don't need to make special code for each trusted site (aka "relying party"). They all talk to each other the same way. The username is actually a domain name, on which some html/xml code points to the OpenID provider.
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One way to implement that strategy in OpenID would be to have your OpenID provider generate new "virtual" email adresses for each trusted site. In other words, when a trusted site asks your OpenID provider for your email address, the provider automatically generates a new address and passes that to the site. I don't know of any OpenID providers that do this, but it should definately be possible.
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@EShy1 thats effort
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Haha, nice. In real life this would mean we all have our own bodyguard and whereever you go, he, or she, goes with you and whenever you want something and you ask a third party for what you want, e.g. a bread or a beer, the bread and beer seller will ask your bodyguard if you really really want to buy these items, where it should be delivered and what prize you'd be paying. Then your bodyguard tells you all this, might even give you advice on the matter. Needs getting used to, i guess..
not sure what you mean. this solution, in the video, it won't let me know who sold my email address so I can stop giving them my business.
I use a different "virtual" email address for every site I sign up, if I get spam, I know who's the guilty site and I can boycott them. It also makes it easy to block this "virtual" address so I don't recieve spam.
EShy1 3 years ago 3
Cool animation and a good story but still confusing terminology for normal humans.
Identity is hard!
factoryjoe 4 years ago 3