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Tuesday, 19th December 2006

botbouncer.com (via) Neat concept: a third party service for ensuring that an OpenID has passed a CAPTCHA. # 6:01 pm

digg: HOW TO turn your blog in to an OpenID. Trying to get some digg love for my OpenID how-to. I even used a digg-friendly exclamation mark. # 12:36 pm

How to turn your blog in to an OpenID

Wouldn’t it be great if you could use the same account to log in to multiple sites and applications, without having to trust them all with your password? Wouldn’t it be even better if you could do this without having to hand ownership of your online identity over to some monolithic third party? (I’m looking at you, .NET Passport Microsoft Passport Windows Live ID.)

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Chapter 15: Other contributed sub-frameworks (djangobook.com). Includes detailed documentation of the powerful (but under-exposed) sites framework, flatpages and CSRF protection. # 10:14 am

Rogues are very keen in their profession, and know already much more than we can teach them

The Construction of Locks # 8:55 am