Shucks! I was all excited to be able to log in to high value targets, like online banking, using my Wikipedia credentials.
-bawolff On 2013-11-27 2:12 PM, "Leslie Carr" <lc...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > Also, we allow people to login via plain text and not SSL. Scary!!!! > > On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Ryan Lane <rlan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 3:51 AM, Gerard Meijssen > > <gerard.meijs...@gmail.com>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 > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > > -- > Leslie Carr > Wikimedia Foundation > AS 14907, 43821 > http://as14907.peeringdb.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
