On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 7:37 PM, Jonathan Leybovich <jleybov(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Sebastian Moleski wrote:
I understand *what* people want to do with it.
What I don't understand
is *why. What benefit does OpenID provide over just registering with
your usual user name and password at any site?
Besides the advantages others have cited (improved security, usability, etc.) OpenID
offers the best way to give liquidity to the credentials I have earned as a Wikipedia
editor. It would be relatively easy for any website to confirm I am an expert in
pre-vertebrate paleontology, for example, by cross-referencing my user id with my edit
history. The only missing ingredient is being able to confirm that when I come to a site
claiming to be User:XYZ I am in fact User:XYZ .
There must be some balance, so you can have a account "semi
anonymous". Because some people want this anonymity, and other people
*need* it.
Seems some people have forget his mother advice about "Don't talk to
strangers!". The internet store all your comments, so using your real
name can result on a really bad idea.
A malicious guy can know everything about you, and you nothing about
him. He can call your real phone at 4:00 am, and say "You sister Mary
is in comma in hospital San Francis, come here FAST". Then steal all
your stuff from your house. You chose how much of your real
information you leak to the internet. But If you use your real name,
is easy for a stranger to collect all data, and use it against you.
And, what if a know pedophile poster is also a pre-vertebrate
paleontology expert?, do you want a "moral filter", that make harder
for evil people to contribute to the society, because are bad people?.
What If you want to get hired, and your future employee reads your
political/religious comments on a blog and disagree?, so you don't get
hired, and you have no idea why.
Stuff like a universal login, may make a "semi anonymous" use of
internet harder. And using your real name on the Internet is a really
bad idea.
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