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Can we please drop the "driver license" metaphor? "Passport" is much more accurate. A license gives one permission to perform an action whereas a passport establishes identity. I can hold a barber's license, but it wouldn't tell you anything at all about if I am actually that person. And why do barbers need licenses anyway?
The Dirty Truth About Web Passwords
This weekend, the Gawker network was compromised. This weekend we discovered that Gawker Media's servers were compromised, resulting in a security breach at Lifehacker, Gizmodo, Gawker, Jezebel, io9, Jalopnik, Kotaku, Deadspin, and Fleshbot. If you're a commenter on any of our sites, you prob...
Here's where the driver license analogy breaks down: I have physical control over my license, it stays with me. No one can lose my license for me.
Also, I would dispute the assertion that third-party auth makes the internet better, rather it is a transfer of responsibility from users to the third party.
This post also doesn't address what I thought was Rob Conery's best argument, that it is entirely plausible to end up with multiple accounts at the same site be using multiple sign in providers. Not so much "single sign on" at that point.
Your Internet Driver's License
Back in summer 2008 when we were building Stack Overflow, I chose OpenID logins for reasons documented in Does The World Really Need Yet Another Username and Password: I realize that OpenID is far from an ideal solution. But right now, the one-login-per-website problem is so bad that I am wil...
I've gotten hooked on the TypeMatrix keyboard. The layout is slightly different, with the enter backspace, and delete keys in the middle of the keyboard. It takes about a week to get used to, but the payoff is worth it. My wrists feel great and my typing speed is up.
The Keyboard Cult
As a guy who spends most of his day typing words on a screen, it's hard for me to take touch computing seriously. I love my iPhone 4, and smartphones are the ultimate utility belt item, but attempting to compose any kind of text on the thing is absolutely crippling. It is a reasonable compromis...
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