I personally believe that I must be very dumb then! I think I've understood what OpenID is about and I've read extensively those other blog entries linked to here which explain its inherent risks. However, I decided to trust it: to be sure, I chose flickr as my provider, and I duly enabled OpenID support. Now I go to http://stackoverflow.com/users/authenticate and I select flickr as a provider, adding my ID there, which is -unsurprisingly- blazar. Then I click on the login button, and I'm brought to Yahoo!'s login page, where I do login. (Alternatively, I may have already been logged in, in which case this step would have been skipped: I tried many times already, logging in, logging out...)

Now it tells me (in Italian, so maybe the words won't be just the same as those you'd see...) that "I'm entering stackoverflow.com" and to press "let me in" to do so. But when I do so, I'm brought back to SO, where they tell me that they couldn't authenticate me. And I've tried several times, on several PC's deleting cookies, and making all sort of attempts! So what's up with it?

Update: what that's described above is the situation as it has been all of yesterday up to another attempt tried this morning. [Murphy's law?] I tried one more time after posting this, and... it works now! I presume it takes "some time" for this OpenID thingy to really "activate," doesn't it?

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In reply to Re^4: Breaking Out of the Perl Echo Chamber (OpenID) by blazar
in thread Breaking Out of the Perl Echo Chamber: A Call to Action by Aristotle

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