Comments on: BBC Digital Planet podcast featuring OpenID

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:59:41 +0000

John, I’m using phpMyID (http://www.siege.org/projects/phpMyID/) which I’ve hacked in the Yubikey authentication stuff from this PHP class http://code.google.com/p/yubikey-php-webservice-class/

It’s not working properly yet (working if I log in directly first but not if another website calls it), but I’m no PHP coder so it’s hard going.

ClavID http://clavid.com/ do offer OpenID with full Yubikey support though.

By: John Salter

John Salter — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 07:58:15 +0000

Hi – please let me know which OpenID provider you use your YubiKey with?

John.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:31:26 +0000

Hi, discovered your blog from the link on the BBC news site.

The worry around what if your OpenID account gets hacked? Seems to be the big concern that people have. Of course as you point out it’s no more insecure than e-mail accounts, but it still seems to be the main thing I hear people commenting on.

The solution? Well I’ve recently discovered and been using the rather nifty Yubikey (http://www.yubico.com/home/index/), I’ve had a quick play around and managed to get it working with my own hosted OpenID provider. I’m hoping it will catch on and more people will start using it.

I’m now off to configure the Yubikey PAM module so I can use it to SSH into my server at home!

By: sash

sash — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 23:45:37 +0000

i’m especially interested in BuddyPress integration. I’ve just made a blog post about it my understanding of this movement http://cli.gs/Yqh6Gv
feel free to leave a comment there

By: sash

sash — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:15:19 +0000

ok, thanks for the info.

By: Chris Messina

Chris Messina — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 18:53:01 +0000

@sash: Great question. Indeed, it appears that DiSo may not be that active, but with the Activity Streams work and Will’s continued work on the OpenID and OAuth plugins for WordPress, there is quite a bit of activity going on, but we’ve been so busy, we’ve just not communicated well about it!

I’ll make an effort to keep the Twitter site more up to date; the mailing list is really where the conversation is, though:

http://groups.google.com/group/diso-project

By: sash

sash — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:01:21 +0000

just wondering what is the latest news for the DISO project ? no news on twitter or on the site since last year.
thanx.

By: Luca Mearelli

Luca Mearelli — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 08:10:30 +0000

The cultural differences between Europeans and Americans you are referring to are real, and pose interesting challenges for any global service. It’s curious that the european legislation i have seen uses, to define the privacy rules, words which refer to the “property” or “ownership” of the data (which is considered of the user and not of the service that collects it)

Also I’m seeing (at least here in Italy) a lot of negative comments related to the fact that now a user doesn’t have any insurance that his/her content will be deleted from the site if he decides to close his account.