OpenID Works!
August 12th 2008
Thanks to the help of Will Norris, one of the authors of the WordPress OpenID plugin, I’ve managed to get it to work. I will include some notes on using OpenID in a permanent page.
OpenID still struggling on WordPress
August 12th 2008
Passwords, Open ID, and “Information Cards”
August 12th 2008
Randall Stross/Digital Domain has posted a NYT story on passwords, Open ID, and Information Cards.
The “Information Card Foundation” is only a few weeks old, and the technique is trying to solve problems with both passwords and with Open ID. The posting roasts the old chestnuts about how bad passwords are (does anyone really need convincing?), then roasts Open ID a bit, and then introduces Information Cards, a slightly more flexible but still vulnerable technology.
Personally, I’m not convinced that Information Cards are any safer or easier to use than Open ID can be.