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AOL Now Supports OpenID

Posted by Zonk on from the making-progress dept.

Nurgled writes "On Sunday John Panzer announced that AOL now has experimental OpenID server support. This means that every AOL user now has an OpenID identifier. OpenID is a decentralized cross-site authentication system which has been growing in popularity over the last few months. AOL is the first large provider to offer OpenID services, and though they do not currently accept logins to their services with OpenID identifiers from elsewhere, they are apparently working on it. The next big challenge for OpenID proponents is teaching AOL's userbase how to make use of this new technology."

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  1. So?? by zoomshorts · · Score: -1, Troll

    So? Who cares??

  2. Who owns this? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Nobody should own this. Nobody's planning on making any money from this. The goal is to release every part of this under the most liberal [as we see it] licenses possible, so there's no money or licensing or registering required to play [we mean to restrict it with patents and/or future incompatible license].


    Should, would, could... suckers wanted! When you release it, I'll see if the license satisfies my requirements and not some "most liberal" bullsh*t buzzwords, and make a decision then.

    Until then, see if you can find enough of [AOL] suckers to push this OpenAsWeSeeItId for you for free, I'll not be one of them.
  3. re: by Kynmore · · Score: 0, Troll

    Can't teach an (A)OLd dog new tricks.

    Except for the sub 10% of AOL users who know what they are doing, most of them will be confused and confounded by just even the idea of OpenID, let alone how to use it.

    Trust me, I worked with these people for almost 3 years. You know there's little hope when you tell them to unplug just the power to their DSL modem, and explaining which one the power cable is, but they unplug the phone line anyways.

    AOL needs to go down, so their users can learn for themselves.

  4. Woot Woot by nnila · · Score: 0, Troll

    FINALLY!! Now it'll be sooo easy to hack peoples important accounts. You make a spoof page for something really irrelevant that no one cares about, they sign in without thinking twice because its not a site they are bothered about at all and BAM I suddenly can use that info to Login to their bank account where they would normally triple check the website address and where the bank has put 3000 security features. I LOVE it!! Come on OpenID - I've been trying to figure out what I'd do to retire ;)