{"id":671,"date":"2007-02-06T11:18:47","date_gmt":"2007-02-06T19:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=671"},"modified":"2007-02-06T11:25:41","modified_gmt":"2007-02-06T19:25:41","slug":"feature-not-a-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/?p=671","title":{"rendered":"Feature &#8211; not a bug!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As he says, <a href=\"http:\/\/brad.livejournal.com\/2287909.html\">Brad Fitzpatrick<\/a> &#8220;made&#8221; the orginal OpenID to solve problems he was facing at Six Apart.&nbsp;&nbsp;Of course it grew over time,&nbsp;if anyone&#39;s opinion counts, it&#39;s his.&nbsp; And here it is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So Bill Gates just announced earlier this morning (while I was sleeping in \/ recovering) that Microsoft is supporting OpenID.<\/p>\n<p>When I made OpenID, I intentionally left the method of authentication undefined. (feature, not a bug!)<\/p>\n<p>Now people ask me what I think about Microsoft supporting it, using their InfoCards as the method of authentication&#8230;. I think it&#39;s <em>great!<\/em> So far I&#39;ve seen Kerberos integration for OpenID, voiceprint biometric auth (call a number and read some words), Jabber JID-Ping auth, etc&#8230;. all have different trade-offs between convenience and security. But as more people have CardSpace on their machines, users should get both convenience and security. (sorry, I&#39;m not totally up on all the details&#8230; just seen demos&#8230;.)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I and others at Six Apart are thrilled to see Microsoft supporting OpenID. Kudos!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks Brad.&nbsp; For us, its clear that OpenID is&nbsp;a really great&nbsp;technology for doing public identities &#8211; the simplicity is stunning.&nbsp;&nbsp;I really like your work.&nbsp; OpenID is clearly an important part of the identity metasystem.&nbsp; We really hope to see the synergy keep expanding.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I and others at Six Apart are thrilled to see Microsoft supporting OpenID. Kudos!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,15,22,5,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}