[OpenID] My answers to the nominee questions

SitG Admin sysadmin at shadowsinthegarden.com
Fri Dec 12 16:46:24 UTC 2008


>You bet that security is (still) one of the main concerns. Please 
>also note that your provider (Facebook) is only a relying party to 
>itself - if you really believe in what you said above than open up 
>and extend the trust to all possible OpenID providers.

For some business models, then, security would actually *hinder* 
rather than *help*, by *enabling* communications/transactions to take 
place outside the closed system. Interesting.

-Shade



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