Shucks! I was all excited to be able to log in to high value targets, like
online banking, using my Wikipedia credentials.
-bawolff
On 2013-11-27 2:12 PM, "Leslie Carr" <lcarr(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Also, we allow people to login via plain text and not SSL. Scary!!!!
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Ryan Lane <rlane32(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 3:51 AM, Gerard Meijssen
> <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
>
>> According to the website of myopenid [1], they are closing down
Februari
1.
>> My hope was for the Wikimedia Foundation to
come to the rescue and
provide
>> a non commercial alternative to what Google
and Facebook offer.
>>
>> I am extremely disappointed that we are not. I hope that what is done
>> instead has at least a similar impact than leaving it all to the
commercial
>> boys and girls. Privacy should not be left to
commerce and national
secret
>> services.
>>
>
> Our account security honestly makes us a poor choice for an auth
provider
> and you should have never considered us for this
anyway. We don't have
> password requirements, we don't offer two factor auth, we don't offer
good
> ways to rescue a lost account, and we really
don't want to be a target
of
> attack for the purpose of owning other websites.
>
> Also, if you're really concerned about privacy you should be putting
your
support behind
Mozilla's BrowserID (Persona).
- Ryan
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