[OpenID] "Nightmare" article on OpenID

[Steven Livingstone-Perez]

The article was a joke - and almost completely unrelated to OpenID. Still, we have national press like that in the UK too.

I commented on it with some of the suggestions you make- not to mentioned having a backup auth mechanism (amateur stuff for any real app).

Onwards tho!

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From: openid-general-bounces at lists.openid.net [mailto:openid-general-bounces at lists.openid.net] On Behalf Of Carsten Pötter
Sent: 18 November 2010 21:40
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Subject: Re: [OpenID] "Nightmare" article on OpenID

I'm not a developer but there seem to be so many things wrong in the article. It even starts by describing the authentication process. But the main problem seems to be that the guy didn't set up any matching of OpenIDs to existing usernames or emails. He didn't use Simple Registration or AX, he didn't ask users if they already had an account,... Nothing!

Unfortunately, the article has a LOT of comments already, 100+ Delicious saves and what not.

Carsten

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 1:01 AM, Bill Shupp <hostmaster at shupp.org> wrote:
> http://blog.wekeroad.com/thoughts/open-id-is-a-party-that-happened
>
> I'm curious about the claim that Google's unique identifiers changed, 
> and he lost access to his users.  Does anyone know if there's anything 
> to that?  I thought that was bound to the realm or return_to parameter.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bill
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