[EuroPython] Web site wonderings

[Chris Withers]

Laura Creighton wrote:

> Accounts for me are things with passwords.  You have to supply a
> password, and then are stuck remembering the damn thing, and then
> typing it to use the system.  I have 0% faith in password security,
> so all I consider this is a barrier to commerce (and other activity).

Urm, I may be missing something here, but I suspect you may in a mintority there...

> If everybody could have an account which is their email address, and
> which had the password, <no password>, and where they were never prompted
> for a password, then I would say that people had accounts which were
> hassle free -- so hassle free that they were not aware that they had
> accounts, and just interacted with the website.

...I don't think I'd even like to specify what talks I'd be attending without 
typing in a password over SSL ;-)

The website _is_ SSL'ed, right?!

Chris

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