On Mon, 4 May 2020 09:24:37 -0700 Ben Koenig <[email protected]> dijo:
>> PSU is closed. Google can't confirm your student id number. PSU is opening and fully functional. All that happened is that all classes are now online. Some describe this with the expression 'the campus is closed,' but that is not really accurate, and it leads to misinformation. Anyway, I just logged in to my PSU account, so it is definitely working. >These web-based authentication systems are incredibly fragile. I can't speak knowledgeably about how fragile they are, but they sure create problems for those of us who can't remember all of our hundreds of usernames and passwords. Would it be possible to create a universal personal code? I mean not part of a corporation like Google, or a nation, like the USA. It would have to be run by a totally independent organization, one that everyone trusts implicitly. Such systems have been tried in the past, but always by corporations who try to leverage it into a way to own the internet. I see the difficulty with such a system would be making sure that each human on the planet could have only one unique personal code. That maybe the downfall of the idea. I am thinking of a system for backups. Websites can still have their usernames and passwords, but when a user loses their password/username the universal personal code can verify who they are, and lots more securely than 'what school did you attend for the first grade?" Or maybe I'm just venting my frustration. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
