[OpenID] Security related Use Cases?

Allen Tom atom at yahoo-inc.com
Wed Oct 22 01:24:16 UTC 2008


Hi Paul - the Yahoo Sign-in Seal has to be configured per machine. It it 
not bound to your Yahoo ID, and it not copied or synchronized across 
different machines.

Thanks
Allen


Paul Madsen wrote:
> Thanks Allen, yes I understand the premise, but I'm a Yahoo! user and, 
> despite knowing better, I find myself very tolerant of 'not' seeing 
> the seal (which I know I set up at some point, but can't remember if I 
> removed it, or did I do it from another machine, or was it for a 
> different account, or was it Google, etc ....)
>
> paul
>
> Allen Tom wrote:
>> Paul Madsen wrote:
>>> Even better 'please login so we can display your personalized seal'
>>>   
>> This is exactly why we want the Login UX to be very consistent, so 
>> users should be very alarmed if the flow ever changes.
>>
>> Allen
>>
>>
>>
>




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