Wouldn’t it be nice if — rather than having to remember dozens of different IDs and passwords — a single ID and password combo would securely power all the sites you use? Well, it appears that dream is moving slowly toward reality.
Last week, Microsoft, Yahoo, IBM, VeriSign and Google all signed up with the OpenID standard, a still-fluid concept which seeks to provide just such an uber-log-in. The OpenID standard would let you forget all but one user name and password. Actually, it might even let you forget that if your ID could be upgraded to a photo.
Here’s the full announcement, which actually raises more questions in my mind that it answers. Why exactly would having one OpenID account be more secure than just using the same ID and password at every Web site — a practice that all security experts warn against?
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