[OpenID] Anti-OpenID Campaign in Germany

[Lukas Rosenstock]

Am 25.04.2007, 11:07 Uhr, schrieb Recordon, David <drecordon at verisign.com>:

> Seems there are some campaigns
> (http://www.deltalima2.de/aktion-openid-nein-danke --
> http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.deltalima2.de%2
> Faktion-openid-nein-danke&langpair=de%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=
> %2Flanguage_tools) against OpenID in parts of Europe which I think we
> need to take a look at.

As a native German speaker, I have looked at this campaign (it's only one,  
not "some") and also the reactions, for example the discussion at  
http://openidgermany.de/2007/04/09/openid-nein-danke/.
I know that Germans seem to be more critical about new technologies, they  
tend to see only the negative side of things rather than the positive  
aspects. It was sure that, if there was major protest against OpenID, it  
had to be a German who says it!
Anyway, that guy who has this blog at deltalima2.de (where he lately  
posted mainly about privacy and protests against  
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_data_retention) and owns  
openid-neindanke.de (OpenID, no, thanks! - For security and independence.)  
seems to be quite alone with his opinions. There are other people who  
criticize OpenID - which is nothing bad, it has its problems - but from a  
neutral point of view, discussing both sides. He accuses "us" to ignore or  
play down the negative sides, but he does the same with the positive sides.
People from the German OpenID community deal with him already, e.g. in  
this blog posting on openidgermany.de and he said another OpenID provider  
already contacted him, so I wouldn't worry too much. However, we should  
still work on communicating the advantages of OpenID, especially what it  
can do for privacy, and for the future try to make OpenID better.


-- 
Lukas Rosenstock
Identity 2.0 Europe :: http://identity20.eu/