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On 23/01/2008, Matt Hamilton <matth at netsight.co.uk> wrote:
> There was a talk on OpenID at Europython last year, in which one
> interesting aspect was mentioned... since you choose your provider,
> and the providers can implement any sort of implementation... you can
> have a no-op provider that just lets your thorough without requiring
> any authentication.  Ie for use on very low-value sites, such as for
> instance a newspaper that requires you to login.  As it has no real
> value to you then it can be shared.  So a scenario could easily arise
> in that you go to any of these newspapaer sites and just login with
> nobody at example.com or whatever and away you go.  It does in effect
> defeat the purposes of the newspaper requiring logins (presumably for
> user tracking/demographics).

hehe - www.bugmenot.com as your low-value OpenID - nice ;)

Tim