X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/954b6353b029062418b911114baa9f86b216e44e..9e8b2c4ecb82e85e7223c94d64dd4a3f61fb9717:/doc/news/openid/discussion.mdwn?ds=inline diff --git a/doc/news/openid/discussion.mdwn b/doc/news/openid/discussion.mdwn index fdd5eecd1..bc9856ad9 100644 --- a/doc/news/openid/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/news/openid/discussion.mdwn @@ -90,5 +90,7 @@ I just tried logging it with OpenID and it Just Worked. Pretty painless. If yo ###LiveJournal openid One caveat to the above is that, of course, OpenID is a distributed trust system which means you do have to think about the trust aspect. A case in point is livejournal.com whose OpenID implementation is badly broken in one important respect: If a LiveJournal user deletes his or her journal, and a different user registers a journal with the same name (this is actually quite a common occurrence on LiveJournal), they in effect inherit the previous journal owner's identity. LiveJournal does not even have a mechanism in place for a remote site even to detect that a journal has changed hands. It is an extremely dodgy situation which they seem to have *no* intention of fixing, and the bottom line is that the "identity" represented by a *username*.livejournal.com token should not be trusted as to its long-term uniqueness. Just FYI. --[[blipvert]] + ---- + Submitting bugs in the OpenID components will be difficult if OpenID must be working first...