[OpenID] query regarding OP migration

SitG Admin sysadmin at shadowsinthegarden.com
Sat May 31 00:20:08 UTC 2008


This part was redundant with the "libel" bit:
>(A lot of royally pissed-off
>trolls whose various identities were exposed and the proof posted on
>the internet, can attest to this through their inability to have that
>evidence removed.)

It would be more accurate to point at "parody" sites like 
Encyclopedia Dramatica or "satire" sites such as The Onion, and 
(since "free speech" protects these sites that most people know 
better than to take seriously) more effective to note that there are 
a *lot* of webpages out there - disinformation can be generated 
faster than we can ever hope to litigate against it all (especially 
if someone writes a program to *automatically* pull in information 
from various sources and randomly assemble it into various fake 
"profiles"). Think of it as the next wave of spam. With possibly 
beneficial results to privacy (too many false positives - dataminers 
would be lost in a sea of noise and unable to identify which ones 
were a valid signal). It's much better to simply go with a whitelist, 
which is where we get the authentication/authorization issue and find 
ourselves trying to establish a framework for trust.

-Shade



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