Username and Password: Repeat ad infinitum
posted by:Jeremy Hessing-Lewis // 07:22 PM // March 03, 2007 // Commentary &/or random thoughts | Digital Identity Management | General | TechLife | Walking On the Identity Trail
The Globe's Ivor Tossel has a nice little piece on online identity management entitled: Who do you want to be?.
Tossel writes:
It's a problem that's older than the Web itself. One of the Internet's basic weaknesses is that there's no central way of keeping track of who you are. In real life, we have one identity that we take everywhere (it's the one on your passport, assuming you can get one these days). But there's no virtual passport in cyberspace: People change names online more often than they change underpants. Every time you go to a new website, you have to start the process of identifying yourself all over again.
Interestingly, I spent 45 minutes trying to find my username and password so that I could login to make this blog post.
I also broke my usual prohibition on reading comments and was delighted by the following reader wisdom:
B H from Toronto, Canada writes: 'It's not a bug, it's a feature.'
Well said my friend.
