Images suck if you're blind.

On 4/25/09 2:46 PM, Mike Panchenko wrote:
> Pardon me if this seems naive, but if we're considering a solution in
> which the user enters a pin at both ends, perhaps a better solution to
> use an image instead, the way banks make show you some small thumbnail
> to verify that it is indeed their site you're looking at. Perhaps the
> provider could maintain a collection of such images (could easily
> generate a pretty huge sample from freely license flickr photos) and
> send them along with the unauthorized request token. Then at the
> authorization screen, the user would simply have to pick the right image
> out of a "lineup" and notified that if they have no idea what the image
> is, they have been duped. It requires changes to both the consumer and
> the provider and it requires that the provider maintain the image pool,
> but it is certainly quite a bit better than requiring a pin at both ends.
>
> Once again, I'm quite the OAuth amateur, so I may be missing something
> significant. Cheers,


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