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Re:Mozilla Persona and Surveillance by kijin on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @07:52AM (#5867586)
My problem is with the "email provider" part. In the real world, it just means Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and handful of firms (like Rackspace) that provide hosted email solutions for a fee. You might call it "decentralized", but I'd call it "mostly centralized".
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Re:Mozilla Persona and Surveillance by StavrosK on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @12:20PM (#5868889)
Eh, so what? The only thing your provider knows is that you're trying to authenticate somewhere, but not where. It's hardly bad.
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Re:Mozilla Persona and Surveillance by lucian1900 on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @09:28AM (#5867918)
It's still way, way better than "Log in with Facebook" and has the potential to get even better over time.
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Re:Mozilla Persona and Surveillance by kijin on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @09:40AM (#5867974)
Of course it is, but it still ain't anything close to optimal.
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