authentication
Back in summer 2008 when we were building Stack Overflow, I chose OpenID logins for reasons documented in Does The World Really Need Yet Another Username and Password: I realize that OpenID is far from an ideal solution. But right now, the one-login-per-website problem is so bad that I am
security
I received this anonymous email a few days ago: I found what one could call a security hole in Stackoverflow. I’m curious enough to go digging around for holes, but too ethical to actually do anything with them. However, I’m afraid that by pointing it out I’ll
authentication
As we continue to work on the code that will eventually become stackoverflow, we belatedly realized that we’d be contributing to the glut of username and passwords on the web. I have fifty online logins, and I can’t remember any of them! Adding that fifty-first set of stackoverflow.