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
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