What’s interesting is that the comments here all point to the same issue: security of the logins. So even if you don’t consider online password management an issue, your potential users do.

I’m a co-founder at PassPack, so I deal with these types of objections daily. People need to know that you can’t read their stuff even if you wanted to. And if you *can*… well that’s not ideal.

If you, as a company, have access to your users’ logins, then any disgruntled employee would too. That’s when problems arise.

At PassPack, no one but the user herself can access her data. Period.

Security needs to be front and central.

More on PassPack’s basic security here:
http://passpack.com/info/security/

That’s a primer. If anyone needs more detailed info, just ask.

#39 @Dan
Agreed. Password managers should play a big role too - use OpenID wherever you can, then stash away your logins for all the other sites too. We’re looking forward to becoming an OpenID consumer.

Cheers,
Tara

Helping you store all your credentials is a by product of what we do, however the MAIN VALUE comes from the fact we know to aggregate all the web into one place avoiding the need to login to each site to see you data, manage it or take actions.

Ahikam Kaufman, Co Founder PageOnce

One of the biggest challenges facing OpenID is it’s a solution (universal identity management) looking for a problem to solve.
Sure, it’s a pain having to remember different usernames and passwords (unless you lazily use the same ones for…

Well done guys!!!
Davidr.

PageOnce (and all startpages like Netvibes) are quite scary, security-wise.

But can you have a web service that provides the convenience of quick access to your online accounts combined with perfect security and privacy?

The answer is yes! Just head over to Clipperz (http://www.clipperz.com).

It’s an online password manager that knows nothing about your data thanks to its heavy use of browser-based cryptography. All you data are encrypted locally by the browser itself before being uploaded to Clipperz.

And Clipperz also offers a great 1-click login feature that allows to automatically login to (almost) any website without entering username and password.

So why you need this scary PageOnce!?

Marco
Clipperz co-founder

@KM4: from what I have understood OpenID is just a way to log onto different sites with the same ID and password, but they do not have a site that aggregates all of your OpenID sites- if they do- that would be awesome- I guess if no one has thought of this idea, they can feel free to grab it from me

how do you avoid somebody getting in and gaining access to all sorts of financial data.

PageOnce takes the information appropriate to each account and displays it in a Netvibes/PageFla…

Also, I have a whole slew of user IDs/passwords for sites not covered by those tabbed by PageOnce. For now, I think I’ll stick to my handmade doc with all my registration info.

Don’t tell me what you do to make me secure, tell me what YOU do with my information. Mint does a great job of this by stating “we do not see or store that information”.

Giving the PageOnce site a good read, they say how they protect data from external sources and that security is part of their culture — but what about internal security of my data/accounts.

I don’t like the IDEA of ANYONE having access to my data, and to risk that for convenience seems a bit sad.

It will be free. So I ´can access… I mean YOU can access them easier.