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OpenID Dangers, Big Brother & Bad Ideas

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Open ID is now being used by Facebook, Yahoo, Flickr, Paypal, Google, Microsoft, AOL, MySpace, IBM, LiveJournal and VeriSign, among many others.

OpenID is a distributed single sign on solution that allows people to sign into different services with the same login credentials.

Simply put, one cracked OpenID site (by hackers, the government, parents, etc) could result in total profile information access and/or one's identity being abused over several other OpenID sites.

The creator of OpenID currently works at Google.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenID#Security_and_phishing
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