This is not the official next article in this series.
I just signed up for my OpenID today at MyOpenID. I’ve been reading snippets about OpenID for the last couple of months for one reason only: I HATE HAVING MULTIPLE LOGINS AND PASSWORDS AND EVERY DAMN WEBSITE NOWADAYS REQUIRES A LOGIN AND PASSWORD AND SEEMS TO HAVE DIFFERENT G*$&%&^ F*&%*$& IDEAS ABOUT WHAT A SECURE PASSWORD IS SO NO ONE PASSWORD WORKS ANYMORE!!!!!
I’ve had it with a website that’s a poor excuse for advertising worse than Saturday morning cartoons telling me I now need a minimum of 10 characters, while another site tells me I must have between 7 and 9 characters, 4 of which must be non-alpha characters, and another site doesn’t give a damn, but oh, you must change your password every so often and the new password can’t be the same as the previous password. Geez you guys, I understand identity theft is a real problem, but it’s not like you’re preventing access to the WOPR.
So why am I excited about OpenID? If it really kicks in and becomes popular, I’ll only need one password and one login provided by a non-proprietary, decentralized system. And if I’m ever worried that password has gotten compromised, I’ll just go change it. AMEN BROTHAS AND SISTAS, I’VE BEEN SAYYAYAYAYAYAVED!
No opinions yet, but I’ll provide feedback in the near future. Time for some OpenID experimentation.