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For the ones who have recently lived under a rock, OpenID is a decentralized single sign-on system. Using OpenID-enabled sites, web users do not need to remember traditional authentication tokens such as username and password. Instead, they only need to be previously registered on a website with an OpenID “identity provider” (IdP). Since OpenID is decentralized, any website can employ OpenID software as a way for users to sign in; OpenID solves the problem without relying on any centralized website to confirm digital identity.

Will this truly be the future? Will the username/password era soon be over? Read the rest of this entry »

If you read my previous post, Takin’ control over network permissions, you would probably have noticed that it is now very easy to access your files from any computer in your network.

But isn’t this a bit too easy? Read the rest of this entry »