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OpenID - Open Source Single-SignOn
Nurgled writes "Danga Interactive, who created LiveJournal and memcached, is working on a new decentralized single-signon system called OpenID. Similar in principle to Six Apart's TypeKey or MSN Passport, OpenID will allow you to assert a single identity to any OpenID-supporting site. The difference here is that there is no central authenticating server: anyone can run one, and Danga's reference implementations will be open-source. The site you are authenticating with never sees your username or password, just a one-time token. You can read the initial announcement on LiveJournal, though some details have changed since that post, so be sure to read the information on the official site."
You're not missing anything.
I believe this phenomenon is called a "mistake".
It happens every now and then when people do things, but end up with results that are unexpected and not satisfactory.
Depending on the level of damage that such a "mistake" causes, people have differing reactions.
Some people react quite analy to even the slightest of such perturbations, perhaps making a note in their daily blog, while others recognize them as being insignificant, and go on happily about their lives.
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If you don't know what AltaVista is (was), get off my lawn.
This under the hardware category... am I missing something?
/. if you noticed/care about that.
Yes, a life. Hmm, that sounds much harsher than I intended it, but you may be paying a little too much attention to
Well, if you prefer it, you can also read the IT version of the story. Or maybe you prefer Your Rights Online?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.