Re:Don't use third party auth to sign in
by bcrl on Saturday November 14, 2020 @10:38AM
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Telecom regulators see fit to make sure phone numbers can be ported from one carrier to another. I fail to understand why the same mandate is not required for email addresses and authentication services. They might not look to be as important as a house, but their loss can still have quite a significant impact on someone's livelihood.
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The technical mechanisms for maintaining a stable identity already exist. Why aren't people using them?
Re:Don't use third party auth to sign in
by RonanTheGrey on Saturday November 14, 2020 @04:58PM
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Yeah, I don't think there's any meaningful way to "port" a "gmail.com" email address away from Google. The entire internet infrastructure is set up so that can't happen, based on the meaning of "domain".
Seems like there's an opportunity there though. If someone could create a platform that would take your address, create you a custom domain, set it up, get your email flowing there (including porting over all your existing email out of gmail), and then helping you move your sign ins to that new address..
That'd be huge. It would also be very, very hard, the amount of infrastructure it would touch.. but doable.