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"Like everyone else in the world, I already have a well-established workflow for managing usernames and passwords." Is this true? I was under the impression th
by abossy 17y ago
"Like everyone else in the world, I already have a well-established workflow for managing usernames and passwords."
Is this true? I was under the impression that password managers are very techie-oriented. Your average user uses "password" or an equally naive variation thereof, with a handful of username/password combinations. I don't think OpenID is intended solely for techie sites.
- mechanical_fish 17y agoYour average user uses "password" or an equally naive variation thereof, with a handful of username/password combinations. Yes. And... that's a well-established workflow, isn't it? ;) It's a degenerate case, so I don't blame you for not catching my drift. But my point stands: Any user who sees a username/password form knows what to do immediately, and does it fairly instinctively. Even if the instinct is to do something much simpler than it is secure.
- abossy 17y agoI don't know why I automatically interpreted "well-established workflow" to mean password management software. It must have been the juxtaposition of that sentence with "My favorite tool is 1Password for the Mac. Anyway, point taken.
- charliepark 17y agoI was under the impression that password managers are very techie-oriented ... I don't think OpenID is intended solely for techie sites. I don't think the providers of OpenID intended for it to be techie-only, but my understanding of user research has shown that it's almost exclusively used by geeks. I think OpenID has, at the conceptual level, a lot going for it. But in real-world execution, I can't stand it. I much prefer my own username/password protocols.