Phil Becker discusses increasing popularity of OpenID, and phishing. The concept behind OpenID is that your identity for various sites gets controlled through your OpenID provider which is just one site. Whenever you want to login into any of the services, you are redirected to your OpenID provider for entering your password. [Continue]
Sam Ruby provides complete introduction to OpenID. I wrote about it on last day of the last year, when I started using my blog as my identity. But Sam has given further illustrations of hosting the identity on your own server without much effort, and explains why not to do it. [Continue]
How many websites do you login to? I for have thousands of accounts and consequentially thousands of usernames and passwords. I forget the ones I use infrequently and end up creating another set. [Continue]