Re:Persona is distributed. Today.
by drdaeman on Wednesday March 27, 2013 @07:16PM
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Persona allows you to keep your network activity private from providers. It's the same in a couple of important aspects, though:
1. You still have to remember which email you had used to login. This was heavily criticized with OpenID ("did I login with Google or MyOpenID?" kind of situation). With emails it just got worse, as you will have problem, especially if you're trying to fight spam using service-specific emails ([email protected]).
2. You still can't "migrate" from one email address to another. Shall your email provider go down or you lose your domain - you lose your identity.
3. You still don't own your own identity. The identity is just leased to you by your email provider (or your domain registrar).
1. You still have to remember which email you had used to login. This was heavily criticized with OpenID ("did I login with Google or MyOpenID?" kind of situation). With emails it just got worse, as you will have problem, especially if you're trying to fight spam using service-specific emails ([email protected]).
2. You still can't "migrate" from one email address to another. Shall your email provider go down or you lose your domain - you lose your identity.
3. You still don't own your own identity. The identity is just leased to you by your email provider (or your domain registrar).