[ubuntu-in] [OT] OpenId Discussion

[Parthan SR]

Jayanth S wrote:
> I have a small thought on OpenId.. Hope it turns out into a nice 
> discussion.. Talking about OpenId service providers, there are quite a 
> few.. EG: LiveJournal, LaunchPad, etc..
>
> When a site says they allow the use of Open ID to authenticate 
> yourself, people without much thought punch in their 
> LiveJOurnal/Launchpad id and password.. There is a huge failure in 
> this mechanism.. How do you ensure that there is absolutely no Man in 
> the middle collecting your info?
>
> Similarly, when you sign up for Twitter and other Web 2.0"So called" 
> sites which let you invite your Gmail friends, people type their ids 
> and passwords without thinking..
>
> I know quite a few people here have invited the list to various sites 
> BY MISTAKE.. I just want to know, how and why do you trust these sites 
> with such information..
>
> P.S. I have an email id which redirects to my gmail.. And i use this 
> to signup everywhere thinking nothing much can be done with that email 
> id..
>

Although this might not exactly fit into the interests of this mailing 
list, such technological discussions might be allowed to certain extent 
if it doesn't digress too much BUT with a use of an Off Topic tag such 
that list members who do not want to read off topic discussions can 
effectively filter them out. Am adding the tag to this thread. If you 
wish to reply to this discussion, please do it to the one with the tag. 
Thank you.

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With Regards,

Parthan "technofreak"
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