OpenID me
| Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 | --jr |
SHH!!
Looks like registration is rolling out OpenID a few days early.
What's more, there are a few additional options one can take whilst setting up said OpenID, including using a customized OpenID identifier based off of either your flickr account, one of your aliases, your normal Yahoo! ID (probably don't want to use this if you don't want to get spam), or a string of random, case sensitive crap that you're unlikely to ever remember. Granted, absolutely no chance of spam there.
Personally, i picked my standard Yahoo! ID since I've had it for 10 years and I've been regularly training my Yahoo! Spam filter. (You do realize that marking messages as Spam is a damn good idea, right?)
Still, SHH! This is a secret pre-release, so don't tell! ;)
Hey, weren't we just talking about OpenID? How's that for fast turn around?
January 30th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
I registered my open ID today, but unfortunately there are not many websites where I can use this except some blogs that I read where I can comment with my open ID.
January 30th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
Yeah, that is a problem. One of the hopes is that by offering this, we can encourage more places to accept OpenID (including ourselves).
It’s not perfect, but it’s a step in the right direction.
January 31st, 2008 at 1:37 pm
The flickr sign-in ID idea is great!
The one thing that I think still needs to be proved to the community is security. Is using one set of login crudentials secure? Will there be more robust password conventions and backup security measures?
Perhaps there should be an ultra secure, multi factor authentication protocol just for changing a password. That way, if your openID password IS compromised, it’s slightly more difficult for a hacker to change it and totally lock you out….
I also love that with a few lines of code, I can make my own domain into an OpenID url.. great!
-Jeffrey