Weblog entry #170 for ajt
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In case you didn't know the popular Perl web site Perlmonks was cracked and someone published a whole bunch of usernames and passwords.
I don't use the same username and password everywhere - even for low level sites, but it did make me re-evaluate my password policy and I have far too many and could do to have a lot less...
Browsers and other client software (e.g. pwsafe) can remember them, but they are client specific and not all of the solutions are necessarily that secure... Open-ID seems like a good idea, but it's not universally implemented and it's not 100% reliable...
Why can't the server just know it's me...?
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How is it not 100% reliable?
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I've found some sites don't Open-ID properly to each other, for example.
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"It's Not Magic, It's Work"
Adam
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