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Re: LinkedIn password database compromised
From: Tony Finch <dot () dotat at>
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 14:18:11 +0100
Tei <oscar.vives () gmail com> wrote:
Anonymity on the Internet is a feature, because a lot of the world netcitizens come from countries where saying this or that is a crime, and can get you in trouble.
Note that you need to make a distinction between pseudonymity and anonymity. In most online situations anonymity is not useful, because you want a service to be able to identify you as the same person when you go away and come back later. You want the service to attach a pseudonym to you, and you want to be in control of whether this pseudonym is linked to your identities at other services or in the real world. Whether you authenticate your pseudonym with a password or a cryptographic key is immaterial, provided the key store supports unlinked identities - i.e. it must not require you to use the same key for everything. A good key store makes it easier to decouple your identities at different services than remembering N different username + password pairs. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <dot () dotat at> http://dotat.at/ North Portland, Plymouth: Cyclonic, becoming westerly 5 to 7, occasionally gale 8. Rough. Rain or showers. Good, occasionally poor.
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- Re: LinkedIn password database compromised, (continued)
- Re: LinkedIn password database compromised Leo Bicknell (Jun 21)
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- Re: LinkedIn password database compromised Matthew Kaufman (Jun 20)
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- Re: LinkedIn password database compromised valdis . kletnieks (Jun 20)
- Re: LinkedIn password database compromised Leo Bicknell (Jun 20)
- Re: LinkedIn password database compromised Randy Bush (Jun 20)
- Re: LinkedIn password database compromised Leo Bicknell (Jun 20)
- Re: LinkedIn password database compromised Randy Bush (Jun 20)
- Re: LinkedIn password database compromised Tei (Jun 21)
- Re: LinkedIn password database compromised Tony Finch (Jun 21)
- Re: LinkedIn password database compromised Rich Kulawiec (Jun 21)
- RE: LinkedIn password database compromised Keith Medcalf (Jun 23)
- Re: LinkedIn password database compromised Michael Thomas (Jun 23)
- Re: LinkedIn password database compromised AP NANOG (Jun 20)
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- Re: How to fix authentication (was LinkedIn) Kyle Creyts (Jun 20)
- Re: How to fix authentication (was LinkedIn) valdis . kletnieks (Jun 20)
- Re: How to fix authentication (was LinkedIn) Kyle Creyts (Jun 20)
- RE: How to fix authentication (was LinkedIn) Drew Weaver (Jun 20)
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