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There are a lot of websites that require a username and password. Everyone I talk to hates that fact and typically uses the same username and password for each site. Granted security experts will complain loudly about this, but people do not want to complicate their experiences.

So let’s talk about what OpenID whitelisting really is. It’s essentially a way of saying we don’t trust our users to store their identity securely and we’re not ready to deal with what happens when they loose it. Which really isn’t anything new.

I had OpenID setup on this site for a week. After I installed it wrong and got a bunch of errors, I reinstalled and it seemed to work fine after a few days. Then Mr Tsali kept getting errors with it and I let it go, since he was my first loyal reader.

Clickpass : Login to sites with one password (openID) Clickpass is an application which makes OpenID easy to use and brings the benefits of single-sign-on to everyone. Over 60% of us use the same password on every site we visit.

With over 11,000 sites now accepting OpenID, how come Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and AOL have limited or no support for using OpenIDs at their own sites. Why is that? Michael Arrington partially answers the question in a recent TechCrunch post. There is more to the story and it has to do with an out dated assumption about "owning" a user on the Internet.