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The system is designed to allow your email provider or another Identity Provider that you trust, to store your password instead of Mozilla. Your identity provi
by ozten 14y ago
The system is designed to allow your email provider or another Identity Provider that you trust, to store your password instead of Mozilla.
Your identity provider just has to implement the BrowserID protocol https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Persona/Identity_Provider_Overview https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Persona/Identity_Pr...
- htmltablesrules 14y agoSo what happens if my email account gets hacked? Won't this compromise all my accounts then?
- ozten 14y agoThis problem exists today. I can do "forgot my password" on many sites and owning your email account can change the passwords and log in to them. Persona doesn't attempt to solve this existing problem.
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