Also, we allow people to login via plain text and not SSL. Scary!!!! On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Ryan Lane <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 3:51 AM, Gerard Meijssen > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> According to the website of myopenid [1], they are closing down Februari 1. >> My hope was for the Wikimedia Foundation to come to the rescue and provide >> a non commercial alternative to what Google and Facebook offer. >> >> I am extremely disappointed that we are not. I hope that what is done >> instead has at least a similar impact than leaving it all to the commercial >> boys and girls. Privacy should not be left to commerce and national secret >> services. >> > > Our account security honestly makes us a poor choice for an auth provider > and you should have never considered us for this anyway. We don't have > password requirements, we don't offer two factor auth, we don't offer good > ways to rescue a lost account, and we really don't want to be a target of > attack for the purpose of owning other websites. > > Also, if you're really concerned about privacy you should be putting your > support behind Mozilla's BrowserID (Persona). > > - Ryan > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
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