SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
elias writes:
"Persona was supposed to be Mozilla's 'single sign-on' solution, but it appears that the project is transitioning to community ownership.
According to Mozilla, Persona has received less adoption than they had hoped for by this point, so developers are being reassigned to other projects. Mozilla will continue to handle critical bugs, but any further development will need to come from the community. If you would like to get your hands dirty, LWN has a nice overview of the project, and the code can be obtained from Mozilla's GitHub repo.
Passwords are still one of the bottlenecks for safe internet use. Few people make a practice out of creating a unique password for every single website and system they access. What do you think, has OpenID won as the defacto standard for federated authentication? Does the 'Sign in with Facebook or Twitter' option offered on many sites already cover the people who would use a single sign-on, or is there room for innovation?"
(Score: 4, Informative) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday March 08 2014, @05:21PM
The only time in my whole life I have ever used single sign-on, was when my entire company was going to attend a Microsoft Developer Tools Road Show in Halifax Nova Scotia, back in 2005.
Admittedly the roadshow itself was worth attending, and I came away with some free tools, but what upset me was that despite that the presentation itself was free of charge, I had to register with MS' single sign-on just to get an invite.
Microsoft Passport?
I didn't have the headspace to sign up for a throwaway email so I used my work email. Happily I don't work there anymore, that Trihedral Engineering of Bedford is the reason why the Iranians are going to get back at us for Stuxnet and Flame. When I pointed out to the children I worked with - at the time I had seventeen years experience, they were all fresh out of school - that one wanted to use smart pointers and why, the company founder Glenn Wadden, a brilliant industrial control systems engineer and software architect but who should NOT be permitted near C++ source, specifically ordered me not to do that anymore, so I resigned in protest.
The problem with single sign-on, is that whoever operates the single sign-on server knows all the websites one signs onto singly. I wouldn't have a problem with Richard Stallman operating a single sign-on service, but I sure as hell don't want Bill's marketroids knowing where I like to hang out.
The Mozilla foundation is arguably trying to do the right thing through open source, but there is a lot of money behind Mozilla.
So even at sites I visit regularly, like Careers 2.0 [stackoverflow.com], that offer single sign-on, I don't use it I just register a local account.
One more thing:
I you use OpenID at Careers 2.0, then whoever operates OpenID knows you're looking for a new position. That is, if you catch my drift.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday March 08 2014, @05:54PM
I see that work is coming along well today.
Any chance we could all pull together as a team this morning, so as to deliver "-1, Insightful"?
So far my most-moderated post got 11 moderations, I think came out to 5 overall.
I'm shooting for a hundred moderations to "-1, Troll".
"Fjord. Cold Fjord. Broken, Not Pasteurized."
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]