It’s not suitable for any business, people. I mean – it’s not USEFUL for me as a businessman, there is no legal basis for using this useless toy in my for profit business. And I can not imagine another business that could use it and it would be useful for the business. But of course Web 2.0 people can keep playing with this toy for as long as they want.

Wouldn’t it be nice if the user created and owned their key to decrypt their identity…

New York Institute of Technology

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California Arts College

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Drake State University

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The same as if an e-mail provider is anonymous and untrusted. They provide a de facto identity hub through the use of ‘recover password’.

What if an identity provider was anonymous and untrusted?

And that’s just the technical story … try to convince the corporate strategy folks that they should rely on their competitor (Google/Yahoo/Microsoft/AOL) for their users to access their site. Just doesn’t fly.

Anyone can host an e-mail server. When you sign up for a website, it e-mails the password to you. You may trust sending your passwords to a big company e-mail provider like Gmail or Yahoo. But the nice thing with e-mail – and OpenID – is if I think I can handle my e-mail better than Gmail, I can run my own server.

I can understand why a bank would want to steer clear of OpenID. But for almost anything else, I can’t see a reason not to use it. In fact, reducing the known usability bottle-neck of signup (”Hey, just fill out this long form, then go to your e-mail inbox and click a link, stand on one leg and sing the National Anthem” vs. “Just type your AOL/Yahoo/Microsoft login in”) seems like a significant competitive advantage.

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The average Joe knows nothing about security, and would not realize that choosing your openID host to signup to openID with is actually a major security flaw / risk factor.

At a recent conference I went to, a speaker was pushing webmasters to use openID. I did raise this issue, and the speaker could only offer that perhaps that this is not a strong enough tool for use in the business / banking sector.

So tell me – what good is this? Without a real method of authorizing hosts to become an openID provider (through rigorous security tests and contracts (a server administrator could login as you through their records)) then there remains massive security flaws with openID… and I am not about to commit my customers to this.