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There is obviously a balance between protecting privacy of information
and making it easy for the average person to remember their login
account.<br>
<br>
I can definitely see why in some cases you would not want to give your
email to some websites, although websites may still ask you for your
email address as is common with a lot of forum and social networking
type web sites.<br>
<br>
The other thing to consider which one of the following would protect
your privacy better?<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:me@gmail.com">me@gmail.com</a><br>
<br>
or <br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://openid.gmail.com/me">http://openid.gmail.com/me</a><br>
<br>
What this example shows is that if you base a url based id on the email
user name then someone who knows that pattern already has your email.<br>
<br>
Anyway, I'm sure this has been debated to death so I'm going to not
continue the debate any further and wait and see what comes out in the
future.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Paul<br>
<br>
Nat Sakimura wrote:
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cite="mid:bf26e2340803240354i7acfc6fcha2f31d56346a5b0d@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">Besides, now that we can just enter <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"
href="http://login.mydomain.com/?email=me@mydomain.com" target="_blank">mydomain.com</a> to
the RP, why would you want to leak your physical contact address such
as email?
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