[libreoffice-website] Re: Askbot at ask.libreoffice.org

Bonjour Jean-Baptiste

Le 2012-02-18 12:40, Jean-Baptiste Faure a écrit :

> Frankly, I do not know, these authentication questions are not clear at
> all for me. What I know is that I see more and more websites where you
> need a Facebook, Twitter, Google+, etc. account to login and I do not
> like that. For me, each website should be able to guaranty its users
> that what it knows from them will not be shared with others unless the
> user accepts/wants that expressly.
>
> best regards.
> JBF

I think that this is what OpenID is trying to address. People did not 
want to have multiple logins to multiple sites. So, in theory, OpenID 
allows people to login to participating sites with a login/password they 
use at a trusted OpenID site. The caveat is that the OpenID providers 
will give access to your personal data with the other participating 
OpenID sites[1]. Some of this data is used to "better market" banners to 
users.

So, a user who wants the least possible personal data, will use a 
trusted site from which this user will have put in the amount of data 
that satisfies her/his wish.

As an example, I use one of my Google accounts login/password that will 
allow the data that I wish to share with the participating OpenID sites. 
I prefer this method of centralizing one's ID from a trusted OpenID site.

If you are particularly picky about whom you would trust as an OpenID 
participant, then you can apply to become and OpenID provider and be 
your own OpenID agent. As an OpenID agent, if you wished, you could then 
offer other people, who feel exactly like you with regards to privacy, 
to store their data on your site and guarantee the safe keeping of their 
data. They would then login to participating OpenID sites with the 
login/password from your site.

Maybe the TDF, at some point, would want to join the OpenID group and 
become an OpenID provider. As we are considered one of the big open 
projects of the internet, from a marketing point of view, this would 
clearly give us an additional edge. We would then join the other big 
projects such as Google, Flicker, Facebook, Twitter etc.[2].

However, all this said, I am disappointed that the OpenID people have as 
yet not translated their site. It's a shame that the participating 
OpenID groups have not lent a hand at translating the site.

Cheers,

Marc

[1] http://openid.net/add-openid/
[2] ask.libreoffice.org


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