Password pain looks set to ease

ablaye · #1 (**permalink**) 02-08-2008, 06:29 PM

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Using your favourite websites and services could soon mean memorising far fewer passwords.
Tech giants Microsoft, IBM, Google and Yahoo have joined the board of the Open ID Foundation which aims to streamline login systems across the web.

The Foundation wants to bring about a system that could mean one ID acts as a guarantor of a person's identity across all the sites they have signed up for.

Already more than 10,000 websites have adopted the Open ID approach.

More at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7234499.stm

I wonder how secure this would be. If one person gets a hold of your password, he'll be able to access your Google, Yahoo, MSN and many others accounts.
Do we really want this or even need this????

Red Paul · #2 (**permalink**) 03-21-2008, 05:02 PM

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Originally Posted by ablaye

I wonder how secure this would be. If one person gets a hold of your password, he'll be able to access your Google, Yahoo, MSN and many others accounts.
Do we really want this or even need this????

Passwords are a pain... especially on corporate systems where they all have different validation rules and force you to change them regularly.

Long-term, I think fingerprint or retina-scan ID is the answer