Comments on: Follow up on the mousetrap http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/08/22/follow-up-on-the-mousetrap/ This can all be made better. Ready? Begin. Sat, 19 Jan 2013 00:09:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 By: Opposable Mind http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/08/22/follow-up-on-the-mousetrap/comment-page-1/#comment-14690 Opposable Mind Thu, 24 Aug 2006 13:37:20 +0000 http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/08/22/follow-up-on-the-mousetrap/#comment-14690 Safety for whom…

Chris Messina wrote a bit about Google, authentication and the GData API. Then followed it up with another post clarifying some of the issues. There are a few meta-notions that I’ve been watching that I think are relevant to discussions…

]]> By: Marc’s Voice » Blog Archive » Better mousetrap or a new form of lock-in? http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/08/22/follow-up-on-the-mousetrap/comment-page-1/#comment-14687 Marc’s Voice » Blog Archive » Better mousetrap or a new form of lock-in? Thu, 24 Aug 2006 11:59:29 +0000 http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/08/22/follow-up-on-the-mousetrap/#comment-14687 [...] Chris follows up with a clarification to his original post: Apparently I could have been more clear in my post on the Google Authentication mousetrap, so here’s some additional summary points: [...]

]]> By: B.K. DeLong http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/08/22/follow-up-on-the-mousetrap/comment-page-1/#comment-14657 B.K. DeLong Wed, 23 Aug 2006 16:02:42 +0000 http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/08/22/follow-up-on-the-mousetrap/#comment-14657 That proposal looks incredibly promising, Gregor – good group of initial committers and mentors. I really hope someone comes up with more solid infrastructure and tools to manage trust relationships across the Web. So far, the closest it’s gotten is with FOAF and some work done at UMD. Putting privacy control in users hands is great but if you don’t give said participants to set trust levels for friends/contacts and sites then we’re still missing a large degree of control over our own information.

]]> By: Gregor J. Rothfuss http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/08/22/follow-up-on-the-mousetrap/comment-page-1/#comment-14645 Gregor J. Rothfuss Wed, 23 Aug 2006 02:12:46 +0000 http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/08/22/follow-up-on-the-mousetrap/#comment-14645 I remain hopeful that Google will open up their Auth infrastructure, or make it interoperable with others. They recently hired Ben Laurie (author of mod_ssl, and a security expert), and Ben, in turn, is backing an Apache project under incubation that is trying to implement a single sign on solution around OpenID:

http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/HeraldryIdentityProposal

The fact that Ben chose to wear his Google hat while mentoring this project (he could easily have used his Apache hat instead) makes me believe Google are up to something in this space.

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