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@Reņģis ♥ It is called “labs” for a reason. And many projects there are now used in production somewhere: Bespin is now the code editor in Github, TestPilot has several tenthousand installations, Sync, Personas and Jetpack are now part of Firefox Core, …
Putting the identity management right in the browser is a very useful approach. And BrowserID even offers a fallback for legacy browsers not capable of it.
Cutting the Gordian Knot of Web Identity
Perhaps you've seen this recent XKCD about password choice? It prompted a spirited debate – even on our very own Security Stack Exchange – about the merits of the argument presented there. Now, to be clear, I'm completely on Randall's side here; I'm all for passphrases over passwords, and I...
Have you heard of BrowserID before? It’s a Mozilla project where they try to move identification *in* the browser. A very promising approach, that might remedy some of your outlined problems:
https://browserid.org/
(When I first learned about it I thought all the way back to your driver’s license post.)
Cutting the Gordian Knot of Web Identity
Perhaps you've seen this recent XKCD about password choice? It prompted a spirited debate – even on our very own Security Stack Exchange – about the merits of the argument presented there. Now, to be clear, I'm completely on Randall's side here; I'm all for passphrases over passwords, and I...
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