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Identity is not important for the modern internet. An identity token *might* be. There are two reasons for site logins. One to reestablish state between sessions to the appropriate user. Two to sell user data.
Imagine if you had to login to a tv channel to watch that channels content. TV prior to the internet the most consumed massed distribution channel on earth, provided anonymity to its users. Mostly because it was low tech, and because it was conceptually top down, viewers dont matter as long as they are watching.
I view the login problem not as a gordian knot, but as a low tech problem, which is essentially unsolveable due to the cowardice of the collective efforts of engineers who are driven by business people who just want to collect as much user data as possible.
Lets face facts, the inventors of the internet fucked this up. It was one of the first things they fucked up and we will live with it for a fucking long time.
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...
"Just start typing"...wow what a great plus for using metro. I can type shit I shouldnt ever have to.
is Metro a command line interface?
Betting the Company on Windows 8
I'd argue that the last truly revolutionary version of Windows was Windows 95. In the subsequent 17 years, we've seen a stream of mostly minor and often inconsequential design changes in Windows – at its core, you've got the same old stuff: a start menu, a desktop with icons, taskbar at the bot...
You are the 100th person that has described Metro as beautiful. It's about the ugliest thing I have ever seen. Primary colors with white icons? This is practically Hot Dog Stand 2012.
So stop showing bad taste, that is ugly shit. Second, it has no real functional purpose, (Metro), I can see no design sense or rationale behind the layout or sizes of the tiles which will all end up being ads anyway when you buy one of these things.
I agree with the notion that MS needs to be awakened from its doldrums, but wait do I really? Why would I want a typewriter manufacturer in the consumer space where it doesnt belong?
MS builds garbage for corporations who eat garbage for lunch and pay a high price for it. Im happy with them continiuing to do that, while I use innovative stuff.
MS has nothing to offer me that I will ever want besides an Xbox and thats pretty much that.
Betting the Company on Windows 8
I'd argue that the last truly revolutionary version of Windows was Windows 95. In the subsequent 17 years, we've seen a stream of mostly minor and often inconsequential design changes in Windows – at its core, you've got the same old stuff: a start menu, a desktop with icons, taskbar at the bot...
it seems there might be an opening here for a company to outsource the storage of secure data, so that it is not under the control of companyxyz. Best practices will not be followed. Market forces are too late to address this.
eHarmony Password Dump Analysis
Unless you've been hauled up in a bunker, eating MREs and watching Doomsday Preppers marathons, you've likely heard of the recent compromise of over 1.5 million eHarmony password hashes. After a little work tracking down the hashes, we launched several attacks against them, hoping to recover at...
Its not you dude. Google is becoming the new Yahoo, one spam result at a time.
The sad part is without google the web is nothing. With all the technology improvements, nothing has really improved.
Its time to get VC out of tech and start building things that work.
The web has turned into a get rich quick scheme.
Trouble In the House of Google
Let's look at where stackoverflow.com traffic came from for the year of 2010. When 88.2% of all traffic for your website comes from a single source, criticizing that single source feels … risky. And perhaps a bit churlish, like looking a gift horse in the mouth, or saying something derogato...
A commenter said:
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.
But - hey, maybe it should be exactly like a drivers license. Physical.
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...
your an idiot
How to Take Down Facebook -- Hint: It Ain't Twitter. (aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network)
I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. It wouldn't be accurate to say there's something "wrong" with Facebook, and it's not like I don't spend a shitload of time ego-whoring around on Twitter too. Let's face it: I'm completel...
Dont use youtube. Who does anyway?
Next your gonna tell me how great netflix is...right??
YouTube vs. Fair Use
In YouTube: The Big Copyright Lie, I described my love-hate relationship with YouTube, at least as it existed in way back in the dark ages of 2007. Now think back through all the videos you've watched on YouTube. How many of them contained any original content? It's perhaps the ultimate case...
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