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== Why Username/Password Authentication Is Bad
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The talk examines some behaviors among users that are forced to make a username/password.  First, making username/password's for every site is laborious.  If the user is
 
The talk examines some behaviors among users that are forced to make a username/password.  First, making username/password's for every site is laborious.  If the user is

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The talks at OSCON 2013 were hit and miss--something I've heard is fairly normal for tech conferences in general--but I definitely came away with a favorite. "Reducing Identity Pain" by Tim Bray was a forty-minute session on how to unique identify your users without requiring a username and password.

Why Username/Password Authentication Is Bad

The talk examines some behaviors among users that are forced to make a username/password. First, making username/password's for every site is laborious. If the user is