Public Persona:? the place where the "modern" internet user posts videos of themselves committing illegal acts.? Also the place where they carry on intimate conversations with their friends.
Cmon - worrying about your email address is so "old school"? :) Terry -----Original Message----- From: Eric Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: OpenID List <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 1:17 pm Subject: Re: [security] MyOpenID On Mar 21, 2007, at 2:56 PM, Dmitry Shechtman wrote: > It's not about the wording or the documentation. Nobody actually reads > it. > I'm speaking out of experience with many users logging into > phpbb-openid > demo boards and being genuinely surprised to find out that their email > addresses are publicly visible. > > You shouldn't assume every user is intimately familiar with concepts > such as > public personas. Here is just one recent illustration: So here's a suggestion. Instead of writing text to explain what "public persona", why not just show them what you mean? Show them the actual web page that would be visible to everyone along with words something like, "This is what anybody in the world would be able to see about you. If this is satisfactory, check ...; if not don't check ... Eric Norman _______________________________________________ security mailing list [email protected] http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/security ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com.
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