Anonymous OpenID?
8. June 2007 – 20:21 byWhile searching Google for something completely different today - makes me wonder if I actually know how to use a search engine, btw - I have stumbled across an OpenID server at www.jkg.in/openid/ which is providing anonymous and disposable OpenID’s. I have not been aware of this server yet and I am not sure what to really think about it.
There is no authentication, so everyone else can use the OpenID I use. The doors for spammers are open, aren’t they? Or is it a much needed reminder that an OpenID should not be trusted without verification as Simon Willison noted? I can’t even think say where a disposable OpenID could be useful.
I am curious if and how that service will be used. If spammers will use it often most websites will probably blacklist the entire jkg.in domain, I guess.
2 Responses to “Anonymous OpenID?”
It’ll be useful for sites that require registration in order to view content - the same sites that http://www.bugmenot.com is used to work around at the moment.
By Simon Willison on Jun 12, 2007
Yes, that’s one possible use case. Though in case of bugmenot websites don’t know that user names and passwords were provided by bugmenot; if anyone is using a jkg.in OpenID they know and the domain can be blacklisted.
By Carsten Pötter on Jun 12, 2007