http://www.xmlgrrl.com/blog/2006/12/02/identity-planets-moons-and-comets/ XML, identity, crafting, and other tangled musings Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:23:02 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.xmlgrrl.com/blog/2006/12/02/identity-planets-moons-and-comets/comment-page-1/#comment-25029 Pushing String » Lovin’ loggin’ in Fri, 05 Jan 2007 00:54:26 +0000 http://www.xmlgrrl.com/blog/archives/2006/12/02/identity-planets-moons-and-comets/#comment-25029 [...] If a person is is going to ask for assistance from a service on the web in doing this consolidation, that service will necessarily have to know something about her (otherwise she might as well keep everything in her head like she does now, her brain being the only existing consolidation point), but federation through the exchange of pseudonyms keeps it to a minimum. In this way, consolidation corresponds pretty well with the federation portion of the taxonomy I had drawn up a little while back. I’ve refined it to focus in on the relevant bit: [...] [...] If a person is is going to ask for assistance from a service on the web in doing this consolidation, that service will necessarily have to know something about her (otherwise she might as well keep everything in her head like she does now, her brain being the only existing consolidation point), but federation through the exchange of pseudonyms keeps it to a minimum. In this way, consolidation corresponds pretty well with the federation portion of the taxonomy I had drawn up a little while back. I’ve refined it to focus in on the relevant bit: [...]

]]> http://www.xmlgrrl.com/blog/2006/12/02/identity-planets-moons-and-comets/comment-page-1/#comment-21584 tim Sun, 17 Dec 2006 20:06:41 +0000 http://www.xmlgrrl.com/blog/archives/2006/12/02/identity-planets-moons-and-comets/#comment-21584 I guess the big concern is phishing-- what happens when a crook steals someone's OpenID identity? Especially if the identity is linked to financial websites, this could be a big problem don't you think? I guess the big concern is phishing– what happens when a crook steals someone’s OpenID identity? Especially if the identity is linked to financial websites, this could be a big problem don’t you think?

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