for their stern reaction on the end run acrobatics of the giant:
The commissioner said Google was asked in August to take various measures and had not complied with the requests.
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Microsoft, I miss you!
Google, I do not like you either your extra features. Google, go away!
<mawkishly>I miss the times when Microsoft was the only entity considered as an incarnation of evil in IT world.</mawkishly>
Learning the OpenID problems
Continuing my recent discussion about OpenID and considering OpenID usage for authenticating to OSGeo services, I wanted to make a short review of its disadvantages. The OpenID advantages are well-known and can be described with a short statement:
open, decentralized, free framework, which allows Internet users to control their digital life with single identity
Stefan Brand collected number of opinions about OpenID and compiled a very interesting post on his blog about problem(s) with OpenID. Stefan’s blog entry is pretty long, so to understand his findings easier, I decided to abstract key thoughts on that matter.
Stefan summarized main problems and sources of OpenID criticism as follows:
OpenID is highly vulnerable to phishing and other attacks, creates insurmountable privacy problems, is not a trust system, suffers from usability problems, and makes it unappealing to become an OpenID consumer.
Next, complaints about the OpenID framework are presented in a few categories, which I’m going to summarize below.