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21st January 2007 - Link Blog

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.

Posted 21st January 2007 at 1:36 am

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 21st January 2007.

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