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Saturday, March 1. 2008
BrainKing and OpenID (and a scheduled outage)
First and most important - as I have already posted to BrainKing's Server News, a scheduled downtime of BrainKing game site is planned on Sunday 2nd March 2008, 6:00 - 8:00 a.m. GMT+01:00 (about 10 hours after publishing this article) because of restoring the continuous data backup process which has been damaged by an unexpected power outage, caused by current strong storms in Czech Republic. When it is done and if the downtime duration exceeds 60 minutes, BrainKing will automatically suspend the game time for 24 hours, in order to avoid timeouts in games with low time control (1 hour and similar). Thank you for understanding.
For some reason, the storm is called Emma and more information can be found in articles published at various news sites, e.g. here. I guess that our serverhousing company technicians are already prepared for any other events of this type, so no more sudden outages should happen.
And now, something about another kind of security. Since I occasionally receive (more rarely than frequently, but it happens sometimes) messages from people who think that someone else knows their BrainKing user name and password, I have decided to get more information about it and made a little Google research. The results are, uh, really interesting:
"A study by digital communications agency @www, reveals that whenever possible, 61% of web users use the same password for all their online accounts. The survey also found that more than 1 in 10 users have over 50 online accounts to log into, leading many to experience password fatigue. Hence using the same password across all accounts."
Creepy, huh? Many of the related articles recommend to apply the OpenID technology and excitedly describe tons of OpenID benefits for the user. And since the OpenID site contains nice and understandable instructions how to implement an OpenID support at any site, I already know that it would not be too difficult to make BrainKing OpenID-enabled as well.
The question is, is someone really using OpenIDs, and if so, is it worth the effort? I, personally, never tried it out, but if any happy OpenID user wants to share his experiences and leave a comment, I would be very glad to learn something new.
For some reason, the storm is called Emma and more information can be found in articles published at various news sites, e.g. here. I guess that our serverhousing company technicians are already prepared for any other events of this type, so no more sudden outages should happen.
And now, something about another kind of security. Since I occasionally receive (more rarely than frequently, but it happens sometimes) messages from people who think that someone else knows their BrainKing user name and password, I have decided to get more information about it and made a little Google research. The results are, uh, really interesting:
"A study by digital communications agency @www, reveals that whenever possible, 61% of web users use the same password for all their online accounts. The survey also found that more than 1 in 10 users have over 50 online accounts to log into, leading many to experience password fatigue. Hence using the same password across all accounts."
Creepy, huh? Many of the related articles recommend to apply the OpenID technology and excitedly describe tons of OpenID benefits for the user. And since the OpenID site contains nice and understandable instructions how to implement an OpenID support at any site, I already know that it would not be too difficult to make BrainKing OpenID-enabled as well.
The question is, is someone really using OpenIDs, and if so, is it worth the effort? I, personally, never tried it out, but if any happy OpenID user wants to share his experiences and leave a comment, I would be very glad to learn something new.
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I use OpenID in a few places (since not that many sites are OpenID consumers). It's a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem, I suppose, since not many people will sign up with an OpenID provider as long as there are few sites that "consume" OpenID, and not many sites are enticed to become an OpenID consumer as long as there are very few people with an OpenID.
(There's a bit of an asymmetry since some sites which have "adopted" OpenID are only providers, not consumers -- for example, Yahoo users can use their account as an OpenID to log in elsewhere, but people cannot log into Yahoo with an OpenID. If everyone who provided OpenID also consumed it, that would make things a bit easier in some cases.)
I have found it especially helpful for commenting on some blogs, where I don't have to create an account especially to comment -- there are so many blogs that require accounts and I don't necessarily want to make many comments on each one so creating an account for each is a barrier. Being able to use OpenID is easier since I don't have to sign up separately for each one.
(This one is an example! I would have liked being able to leave this comment with an OpenID, rather than having to sign up just to leave the comment.)
I use a password manager which lets me generate random passwords for sites, so I tend to use lots of different passwords, but even so it's a bit tedious to look up the password each time I'm somewhere I haven't been in a long time. If I hadn't got the password manager, I imagine I'd be using the same password everywhere because there are simply too many sites that I have an account on for me to keep track of that many different passwords in my head.
So if you introduced OpenID, I think it would be a good idea.
(There's a bit of an asymmetry since some sites which have "adopted" OpenID are only providers, not consumers -- for example, Yahoo users can use their account as an OpenID to log in elsewhere, but people cannot log into Yahoo with an OpenID. If everyone who provided OpenID also consumed it, that would make things a bit easier in some cases.)
I have found it especially helpful for commenting on some blogs, where I don't have to create an account especially to comment -- there are so many blogs that require accounts and I don't necessarily want to make many comments on each one so creating an account for each is a barrier. Being able to use OpenID is easier since I don't have to sign up separately for each one.
(This one is an example! I would have liked being able to leave this comment with an OpenID, rather than having to sign up just to leave the comment.)
I use a password manager which lets me generate random passwords for sites, so I tend to use lots of different passwords, but even so it's a bit tedious to look up the password each time I'm somewhere I haven't been in a long time. If I hadn't got the password manager, I imagine I'd be using the same password everywhere because there are simply too many sites that I have an account on for me to keep track of that many different passwords in my head.
So if you introduced OpenID, I think it would be a good idea.
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Many thanks for your valuable comment.
I agree it would be a good idea and I will think it over.
I agree it would be a good idea and I will think it over.
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