Simple Facebook Connect is a plugin for WordPress that promises to make it easy to enable Facebook Connect on a WordPress install.
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Simple Facebook Connect is a plugin for WordPress that promises to make it easy to enable Facebook Connect on a WordPress install.
I am not a fan of Facebook Connect due to the fact that one breach of security and suddenly every website with that login is compromised. After Gawker’s database was compromised I installed Last Pass and audited my crappy password security – 55 sites with the same password! – so I am deeply uninterested to have a single point of security in Mark Zuckerberg’s creepy hands.
Seriously. Dude creeps me out.
@Mark Morgan: The Gawker database breach was fun..I had to do much the same thing you did.
As for Facebook…I can just imagine the lawsuits if they ever have a problem like that. Hopefully they’re spending a bit more on security than Gawker did and making better decisions.
OTOH, while I get where you’re coming from I think the issue is less that you used the same password at 55 sites (same here) but that you needed passwords at 55 sites. There are some sites I want to generate my own user and password for. There are others where I just want to leave a comment and have no problem using Facebook or Twitter to do so there. There’s no money involved, no CC info, etc…its just saying “yes, this is the same guy over there making this comment.”
Since Facebook and Twitter are so big, one thing that would be cool to do is go the route Blizzard went with World of Warcraft and have an authentication server that utilizes RSA SecurID. So you’d have a username, password and 6-digit ID, presumably on a smart phone app. I have no clue what the costs are for implementing something like that on such a scale, but that would really help improve security if done properly.
True, and if your Facebook account is compromised there’s theoretically only one (instead of 55!) places to change it. I doubt Facebook is the place to look for leadership like that.