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16th January 2007 - Link Blog

OpenID users can be just as trusty as local users. Martin Atkins makes a similar argument to my own: OpenIDs are trustworthy, provided you subject them to the same authentication steps (CAPTCHA/e-mail validation) as regular users.

Posted 16th January 2007 at 11:13 am

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