A Single Sign On for the Universe?

Web sites, including this one, insist on your profile information. As web sites become more specialized, customers/visitors will be filling a registration a day!

That, unfortunately, is the beginning of the problem. Keep the same userid and password across websites – suffer the consequences of being hacked once and robbed many times! Keep different userids and/or passwords for all the sites you access – well, you might need a website to hold all these userids and passwords!

So what is the way out? The answer, as always, is a simple matter of looking at the root cause of this problem. You are one. Your profile is the same. Keep it in the same place – let everyone access that one place. Microsoft Passport was a good idea in this direction. OpenID is another one with more traction.

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