Comments on: Somebody had to do it http://kveton.com/blog/2006/10/20/somebody-had-to-do-it/ Father, entrepreneur, pizza maker & bacon lover Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:18:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: kveton http://kveton.com/blog/2006/10/20/somebody-had-to-do-it/comment-page-1/#comment-2119 kveton Fri, 20 Oct 2006 13:47:06 +0000 http://kveton.com/blog/2006/10/20/somebody-had-to-do-it/#comment-2119 Ian: Yes, you have to choose your service provider very carefully today. However, you're not the only person to have asked this question. There are a couple of possibilities for how we solve this once-and-for-all but its a question of hashing them out in the community, developing it in the specification and then writing the code. As for phishing, I couldn't agree more. There are several folks working on browser extensions to help alleviate this pain (Sxip is working on one I know for sure and ooTao already has one out). Discussions have also been had with Mozilla about directly integrating support for OpenID into the browser (this would be basically leveraging the anti-phishing stuff in Firefox already). Ian: Yes, you have to choose your service provider very carefully today. However, you’re not the only person to have asked this question. There are a couple of possibilities for how we solve this once-and-for-all but its a question of hashing them out in the community, developing it in the specification and then writing the code.

As for phishing, I couldn’t agree more. There are several folks working on browser extensions to help alleviate this pain (Sxip is working on one I know for sure and ooTao already has one out). Discussions have also been had with Mozilla about directly integrating support for OpenID into the browser (this would be basically leveraging the anti-phishing stuff in Firefox already).

]]> By: http://snarfed.org/ http://kveton.com/blog/2006/10/20/somebody-had-to-do-it/comment-page-1/#comment-2105 http://snarfed.org/ Fri, 20 Oct 2006 10:06:22 +0000 http://kveton.com/blog/2006/10/20/somebody-had-to-do-it/#comment-2105 agreed, this is a great step. props to technorati, along with livejournal and the rest of the open-minded early adopters. full disclosure, my main motivation for posting here is to test out <a>pyblosxom\'s new openid support</a>, which i\'ve just finished and checked in. i\'ve tested locally, of course, but this is the first live test. fingers crossed! oh, and no promises, but i\'ll see what i can do about openid at google... agreed, this is a great step. props to technorati, along with livejournal and the rest of the open-minded early adopters.

full disclosure, my main motivation for posting here is to test out pyblosxom\’s new openid support, which i\’ve just finished and checked in. i\’ve tested locally, of course, but this is the first live test. fingers crossed!

oh, and no promises, but i\’ll see what i can do about openid at google…

]]> By: Ian Thomas http://kveton.com/blog/2006/10/20/somebody-had-to-do-it/comment-page-1/#comment-2102 Ian Thomas Fri, 20 Oct 2006 09:01:35 +0000 http://kveton.com/blog/2006/10/20/somebody-had-to-do-it/#comment-2102 Open ID sounds great, except for one thing. What happens when your service provides decides to stop providing Open ID? Do you lose access to all your accounts that use that Open ID? It also seems to be a massive target for phishing attacks, should the likes of eBay start using it. Open ID sounds great, except for one thing. What happens when your service provides decides to stop providing Open ID? Do you lose access to all your accounts that use that Open ID?

It also seems to be a massive target for phishing attacks, should the likes of eBay start using it.

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