Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> writes: > In article <878vimhfdp....@benfinney.id.au>, > Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > > So, if I want to be free to choose an identity provider I trust, and > > it's not Facebook or Google or Twitter or other privacy-hostile > > services, how does OAuth help me do that? > > It doesn't. Well, in theory, it could, but in practice everybody's > OAuth implementation is different enough that they don't interoperate.
Thanks. So OAuth is a pseudo-standard that is implemented incompatibly to the extent that it doesn't actually give users the freedom to migrate their existing data and identity at will to any other OAuth implementor? -- \ “Money is always to be found when men are to be sent to the | `\ frontiers to be destroyed: when the object is to preserve them, | _o__) it is no longer so.” —Voltaire, _Dictionnaire Philosophique_ | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
