Simon Willison’s Weblog

The point of “Open” in OpenID

TechCrunch report that Microsoft are accepting OpenID for their new HealthVault site, but with a catch: you can only use OpenIDs from two providers: Trustbearer (who offer two-factor authentication using a hardware token) and Verisign. "Whatever happened to the Open in OpenID?", asks TechCrunch’s Jason Kincaid. [... 451 words]

8:12 am / 24th June 2008 / / dumbnetworks, healthvault, microsoft, open, openid, security, techcrunch, trustbearer, verisign