Re:Open Letter to Mozilla: Bring Back Persona
by stickfigure on Thursday December 24, 2015 @06:24PM
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What you're describing is "use a synthetic primary key for your User", which is something even the most naive junior web developer does automatically these days. There's nothing special about LinkedIn and Facebook except that they went through the trouble of adding additional authentication mechanisms. You can too, no matter what you treat as a "username".
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Re:Open Letter to Mozilla: Bring Back Persona
by kbenson on Thursday December 24, 2015 @07:28PM
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I'm not entirely sure where you got the impression I was implying it was hard and esoteric, and only Facebook and LinkedIn could do so. I was simply noting that there's a difference between email as a username and email as part of one or more authentication tokens, and the differences in design and how it affects the possible future need of users to change what are often usable as authentication (email addresses, phone numbers, etc).