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Yahoo to End User Access of Services with OpenID

posted by janrinok on Wednesday March 05 2014, @06:05PM   Printer-friendly
from the too-little-too-late? dept.

gishzida writes:

"A Reuters release notes that Yahoo Inc will stop letting consumers access its various online services, including Fantasy Sports and photo-sharing site Flickr, by signing-in with their Facebook Inc or Google Inc credentials. The move marks the latest change to Yahoo by Chief Executive Marissa Mayer, who is striving to spark fresh interest in the company's Web products and to revive its stagnant revenue.

The change, which will be rolled out gradually according to a Yahoo spokeswoman, will require users to register for a Yahoo ID in order to use any of the Internet portal's services."

 
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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 05 2014, @10:55PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 05 2014, @10:55PM (#11568)

    allowing smaller companies to not pull their own weight WRT security is a self-fulfilling prophecy whereby a data-breach can be inevitable due to incompetence or negligence.

    Face it, companies both large and small don't pull their own weight WRT security when the ball is entirely in their court, either. Many BANKS can't do internet security properly, even today. Increased responsibility doesn't reduce incompetence and negligence, it just raises the stakes when that incompetence and negligence is exploited.

    The point of OpenID is to put your authentication security in the hands of companies which take authentication security seriously, rather than gambling your ID with every new service you sign up to.

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  • (Score: 2) by edIII on Thursday March 06 2014, @02:32AM

    by edIII (791) on Thursday March 06 2014, @02:32AM (#11664)

    You are still far better off having faked information and separate passwords for every single site that you visit.

    For the sites that have information that's real, you progressively create more complicated passwords (proportional to the info you gave them) and demand higher levels of security from them in the form of two-factor authentication and the like.

    If somebody cracked my password here they would find no identifiable information on me, certainly not any kind of sensitive information, and a password that can only be used with SoylentNews.

    If you cracked my account with PizzaHut you could order pizzas and have them sent to my address, but you would be paying for them. I keep waiting for that to happen, but it never does. Lazy hackers.

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