[OpenID] My password is 'password'

SitG Admin sysadmin at shadowsinthegarden.com
Sat Nov 28 21:30:54 UTC 2009


>My intuition tells me that the password prompt is the new clickwrap 
>screen and people just plow right through it without even thinking 
>about who's asking for the password. Of course this explains why 
>phishing is so successful.

How about a different model entirely? It'd be a radical paradigm 
shift, but if we can get users away from all their old thoughts 
associated with "passwords", and introduce them to a new model (which 
just happens to work much like their old model) that explicitly bases 
itself off of some process in the real world which they all use, and 
which more closely parallels the security (and privacy) concerns 
involved, they may inherit all the thinking that usually accompanies 
that process - when they are utilizing the new "unpassword" model, 
that is?

-Shade


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