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Re:Cutting the Gordian Knot of Web Identity by cuu508 on Tuesday September 06, 2011 @07:51AM (#2965170)
Current solutions to many-passwords problem are: * identity service like OpenID, Twitter, Facebook * Password Manager like LastPass, KeePass

I wonder if, at least in some cases, we could somehow get rid of identity requirement altogether: given a site that currently requires user accounts, change its mode of operation so that identity either doesn't matter at all or doesn't matter as much (the site is useful for anonymous users)

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Re:Cutting the Gordian Knot of Web Identity by pavpanchekha on Tuesday September 06, 2011 @09:06AM (#2965413)
Educating developers to make sites that don't require login is a social solution. Those have historically proven less workable than technical solutions.
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