Comments on: OpenProfile http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2006/06/12/openprofile/ Life, The Universe, and Everything through an ADSL connection. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:27:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 By: lucmars http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2006/06/12/openprofile/#comment-7127 lucmars Wed, 14 Jun 2006 20:10:50 +0000 http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2006/06/12/openprofile/#comment-7127 Your reasonment relies on an email address, but this a service offered by the ISP as well as a webpage, this is not something that the user has as a technical or logical consequence. An ISP can provide only the access to the internet and nothing else, in this case, upon what Openprofile or OpenID can rely ? Best, luc Your reasonment relies on an email address, but this a service offered by the ISP as well as a webpage, this is not something that the user has as a technical or logical consequence.
An ISP can provide only the access to the internet and nothing else, in this case, upon what Openprofile or OpenID can rely ?

Best,
luc

]]> By: Rhys Adams http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2006/06/12/openprofile/#comment-21962 Rhys Adams Fri, 27 Apr 2007 03:14:26 +0000 http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2006/06/12/openprofile/#comment-21962 There are a lot more sites using OpenID than 2; http://openiddirectory.com has a (incomplete) list of sites using it. I also agree with what Luc says: anyone can set up a free account with Livejournal or Wordpress, and instantly have an OpenID. Also, giving your email address to every site that needs authentication sounds a bit risky to me: who dictates what the site will do with it? There are a lot more sites using OpenID than 2; http://openiddirectory.com has a (incomplete) list of sites using it.
I also agree with what Luc says: anyone can set up a free account with Livejournal or Wordpress, and instantly have an OpenID. Also, giving your email address to every site that needs authentication sounds a bit risky to me: who dictates what the site will do with it?

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