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17th August 2007 - Link Blog

VeriSign's SeatBelt OpenID plugin for Firefox. The first good example of browser integration for OpenID. It catches phishing attempts by watching out for rogue OpenID consumers that don’t redirect to the right place.

Posted 17th August 2007 at 5:37 pm

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