MySpace Joins OpenID Coalition

the4thdimension writes "MySpace has joined a coalition of other big-name e-services in support of OpenID. If you aren't familiar with the OpenID coalition, they are a group that seeks to allow users to create a single account/password set to be used on a number of services. Such services already signed up include: Google's Blogger, Wordpress, AOL, Yahoo, Vox, LiveJournal, and others." Reader gbjbaanb adds a link to the BBC's coverage and points out that MySpace's 100 million users would mean nearly a doubling of the approximately 120 million OpenID accounts now in use, writing: "Initially support is to use MySpace OpenIDs as providers only — i.e. you cannot logon to MySpace with an OpenID created elsewhere, but that policy will change in the future. This should help to make OpenID the de-facto login mechanism for the Internet, now if only Microsoft would support it, there are plenty OSS OpenID libraries available."

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DO NOT WANT

[snarfies]

I refused to sign up for MS Passport, and I refuse to sign up for OpenID. I don't WANT my logins shared across multiple websites. There are some websites/services I just plain old don't trust with some or all elements of my real information. And if only ONE of those websites is compromised, my login is now compromised across the board, and I can have impersonators using my login with websites/services I've never had any involvement or perhaps even knowledge of.

I've been thinking of nuking my Myspace account for some time, as I don't actually USE it for anything, sounds like this might be a good time to go ahead with that.