[security] "Anonymous Providers"

[Steven Osborn]

I was curious as to everyone's take on "anonymous" openid providers  
such as http://www.jkg.in/openid/

I just picture a scenario where Grandpa want's to be cool and use  
openID because he's heard it's sooo hip and secure and an anonymous  
openID must be even more secure so he types in http://www.jkg.in/ 
openid/asdf1234 as his openID  or even copies and pastes "http:// 
www.jkg.in/openid/anything" since its an example that is given.  Now  
every hacker in town can just write a bot that logs in with "http:// 
www.jkg.in/openid/anything" all over the net accessing poor souls  
accounts who thought it was cool to be anonymous.

Of course it is up to the user to choose a legitimate openID provider  
that they trust, but I'm not sure what percentage of users is capable  
of discerning a good provider from a bad one.
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