[OpenID] OpenID consumers should make it clear if they are going to publish a user's OpenID
Dave Kearns
dkearns at gmail.com
Mon May 14 15:07:15 UTC 2007
From: Martin Atkins
>
> Im afraid that my view on this problem has always been that if you don't
> want to be correlated, you should use a different identifier. The beauty
> of OpenID is that you don't have one identifier for many sites, or one
> identifier for one site... you have many identifiers for many sites. You
> can use the same single identifier for all sites, or you could use a
> different identifier for each site, or a combination of the two.
>
What's the point of using different OpenID identifiers at different sites?
Where's the benefit? What's the gain? Why not simply use the
username/password option the site already offers instead of introducing
needless complexity???
-dave
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