OpenID According to Dave

A short video explaining OpenID, brought to you by myVidoop.com

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[EShy1]

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]

the authentication part is fine

but the email part is wrong, I don't want to use the same email for every site I sign up for.

There are many solution to the too many users and passwords problems.

this soluiton requires sites to implement it, that's never going to happen with enough sites to become a real solution for the user (and the big ones will not want to do this at all)

isn't this like cardspace? (or whatever it was called) I'd rather use a plug in that saves my passwords locally

[greeniekin]

You can have heaps of your own open id's. Just like you could have your own id for each site. Also most of these sites offer a way to register with that site so those that do not have an openID or do not want to use it can still register. Also you sound like you have to use google. You can research openID providers and pick the one you think is the most safe. Or if you really want to you can be your own openID provider. So you are not forced into anything. Also still anonymous.

[azadpak3]

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[Tome4kkkk]

The is one problem with OpenID and its crucial, shadowing all the other problems with it. It's PRIVACY ISSUES. As with everything Google touches, being private data harvester. Look up the article "The problem(s) with OpenID". To sum it up OpenID is nothing else as a single Internet ID tied to a person. It denies the very essence of the Internet advantage being anonymity. "Hey, why don't you take a look at all the websites I visit and when I visit them!". Here's what you say when you use OpenID.

[r4ndomUser]

Really well illustrated explanation! I just love this kind of whiteboard sketches, I always understand concepts the fastest by that way.

[Myrtone]

Another problem is that passwords are systems codes, so we shouldn't expose a user to too many of them. See PasswordlessLogin on MeatballWiki.

[OpeID]

Popular on complex

[uCentric]

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.

[ggonsalv76]

Great video....