Cutting the Gordian Knot of Web Identity

Re:Cutting the Gordian Knot of Web Identity by zerostar07 on Tuesday September 06, 2011 @08:56AM (#2965357)

Mozilla launched browserID, but in reality its not much different from facebook, twitter, google, openid etc. Facebook and twitter give webmasters the promise of virality that's why they have been relatively successful.

Still, they are a nightmare. What if facebook decides to ban your domain? What if user's account gets hacked?

What if we changed the rules of the game a bit: Take your cookies and browser settings with you in a USB key. Websites know you by the session id stored in your browser-wallet. They don't even need to know your name or your password. You can use your friend's computer and fool around, without having to delete recent history and cache afterwards.

Or instead, store browser settings in the cloud, or in a secure P2P network. Login to the browser, not websites. Google sync does that partly, and it's convenient. No need to transfer bookmarks, settings and passwords when you get a new computer. Maybe that's where we are headed.

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Re:Cutting the Gordian Knot of Web Identity by runn1ng on Tuesday September 06, 2011 @10:02AM (#2965619)

I have thought about that... but more and more, I browse the internet from some sort of closed system (iOS and Android devices). I also switch operating systems quite often. I doubt any solution, other than "just remember the damned password, you remember N of them, so you can remember N+1, right?" will work vertically on all of those.

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