Comments on: RailsRumble hates OpenID

By: Ruby Galore - Today Top Blog Posts on Ruby on Rails - Powered by SocialRank

Ruby Galore - Today Top Blog Posts on Ruby on Rails - Powered by SocialRank — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 07:58:03 +0000

[...] RailsRumble hates OpenID [...]

By: NetManiac

NetManiac — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 07:23:39 +0000

Well it looks like Rails Rumble site does not support OpenID for voting account

As a Świerszcze team member (http://vote.railsrumble.com/teams/53/visit) I have to say, we just forget about OpenID. We had very rough start, first day was terrible ) OpenID get lost somewhere

By: Dr Nic

Dr Nic — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 04:53:55 +0000

@planetmcd – ahh, americans and their fears of privacy hehe

By: planetmcd

planetmcd — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 02:51:11 +0000

Dr. Nic,
Thanks for responding. I take your point about the nature of negative lists. The phishing issue is a concern, but an addressable one (as you point out, thanks, I didn’t know about that). My major concern is the privacy issue of having a readily traceable identity. Perhaps I’m overly paranoid, but just because I’m paranoid doesn’t mean the NSA isn’t plotting to track everyone.
McD

By: Trevor Bramble

Trevor Bramble — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 21:10:10 +0000

Unfortunately there simply wasn’t time for our team (all two of us – the other two didn’t put any more effort into it than agreeing to participate).

I use my OpenID wherever possible, and had it on the “if there’s time” list. But it wasn’t a priority because, well, how many of the judges can be expected to have an OpenID already?

By: Dr Nic

Dr Nic — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:17:34 +0000

@planetmcd – phishing can be an issue; myopenid.com addresses it by allowing users to upload a personal, secret photo. One that a phishing site wouldn’t be able to guess. So, this shared secret helps to identify if you have been redirected to a phished site.

The other “issues with openid” seem to be in the list just to make the article a “list”. The problem with a “list” is that you feel the need to object to each one of them. Perhaps I will one day.

By: planetmcd

planetmcd — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 11:55:30 +0000

Dr. Nic,
I’m not a participant in RailsRuble, but this post I saw highlights my concerns, plus others that I hadn’t thought of.
http://www.idcorner.org/?p=161
What is your take? could this e indicative of reasons openID not being used more liberally?
Mike

By: Khang Toh

Khang Toh — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 23:23:30 +0000

Hey, don’t count us out, we do not need any account registration as well

http://vote.railsrumble.com/teams/120

Our app: http://simplebucket.com

By: Dr Nic

Dr Nic — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 21:22:51 +0000

@jcnetdev – absolutely true – but much harder to scrap “the absence of required login”

PubBud looks awesome. Nice use of location by IP address (my guess).

Added to list.

By: jcnetdev

jcnetdev — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 21:03:19 +0000

Not all of them require user accounts. http://pubbud.railsrumble.com needs no login.