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Sunday, 21st January 2007

Phishing and OpenID: Bookmarks to the Rescue? Ping extends my proposal to use bookmarks as the principle authentication mechanism, resulting in a system that is much easier for people to understand.

# 1:36 am / bookmarks, ka-ping-yee, openid, phishing

Anonymous OpenID. A mailinator-style service for OpenID. I’m glad someone’s built this; it reinforces the idea that an OpenID should not be trusted as an account without first using a verification step.

# 2:03 am / mailinator, openid