The more the merrier
It would appear that yet another large company is joining the OpenID bandwagon. According to them, Yahoo’s recent adoption of OpenID has quadrupled the number of OpenID users — or, at the very least, the number of OpenIDs floating around out there.
Let’s take a moment to ignore the usual, obvious questions that are raised here (”When is there going to be a big OpenID consumer?”, “How many of those users even know they have OpenIDs?”, and so on) and bask in the good news. There are more OpenID users than ever. There’s now more reason for sites to become relying parties than ever. The system is better-supported than ever. Yahoo’s going to work to make it easier than ever for sites to become reliers.
I have but one more piece of good news. And it’s good news for everyone who values their own security. Yahoo’s login is now competing, in a very real sense, side-by-side with not only AOL’s and LiveJournal’s, but with other new, stronger systems. Like myVidoop, for instance.
Let’s see if we can’t challenge the giants to beef up their login security a bit. Now that there’s even more incentive.
