Why OpenID should be decentralized

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	anildash says: Microsoft and AOL support OpenID, and you pick Ben & Mena to draw the horns on? C'mon.... Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )
	YanivG says: :)) I actually didn't draw the horns on, it's a snapshot from Simon Willison's OpenID presentation at FOWA. And while I don't want to speak on his behalf, he actually referred to them quite positively, and the horns thing was just to illustrate his point about the need for decentralization, just in case, and was not meant, as far as I understood it, to reflect negatively on them. Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )
	anildash says: Okay, that makes sense! :) They are devilish, but not evi! Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )
	ogimogi says: Yaniv, I hope that now you understand OpenID ;-)) Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )
	Simon Willison says: To provide full context, this was the third in a sequence of slides. The first was Microsoft executives, with the caption "Would you trust these men with your identity?". Then there was Ben and Mena, with "surely you trust these guys...", and finally the above slide for "But what if they turn evil?". Mind you, later on I suggested that evil Ben and Mena might set up an OpenID phishing trap... Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )
	anildash says: Oh no! You have discovered The Terrible Secret of TypeKey! :) Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

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