Security
In March, 2012, a research paper reported an extensive study on the security of social login mechanisms. The authors found 8 serious logic flaws in high-profile ID providers and relying party websites, such as OpenID (including Google ID and PayPal Access), Facebook, Janrain, Freelancer, FarmVille, Sears.com, etc. Because the researchers informed ID providers and relying party websites prior to public announcement of the discovery of the flaws, the vulnerabilities were corrected, and there have been no security breaches reported.
The problem we see now is that many websites are adopting Facebook’s “Connect” and OpenID to allow for one-click logins to access a website. You sometimes don’t even have the choice of making a separate account on that site, meaning you can’t “opt out” of these SSOs. Sure, your information stays safe with that site, but it’s also stored within a central database under Facebook’s control. While there’s nothing wrong with this, there’s just too much risk involved in putting all your sensitive data from all over the web into one massive identity bubble. —"Does Facebook Federation Have Your Best Interests At Heart?Read more about this topic: Single Sign-on
Famous quotes containing the word security:
“In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.”
—J. William Fulbright (b. 1905)
“It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others. So it happens that when I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and the hunger for it ... and then the warmth and richness and fine reality of hunger satisfied ... and it is all one.”
—M.F.K. Fisher (b. 1908)
“... most Southerners of my parents’ era were raised to feel that it wasn’t respectable to be rich. We felt that all patriotic Southerners had lost everything in defense of the South, and sufficient time hadn’t elapsed for respectable rebuilding of financial security in a war- impoverished region.”
—Sarah Patton Boyle, U.S. civil rights activist and author. The Desegregated Heart, part 1, ch. 1 (1962)