>It seems like a lot people here are confused as to what is an identifier and what is authentication. An identifier uniquely identifies someone (the uid), while

>It seems like a lot people here are confused as to what is an identifier and what is authentication. An identifier uniquely identifies someone (the uid), while authentication is the way to prove identity (the password). The problem is how the average person working in the bureaucracy will see this, not how a smart programmer like you on hackernews would see it. The world is full of average people doing average mistakes in average bureaucracies. Everything that can be abused, will be abused.