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		kijin on June 12, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mozilla Persona and Surveillance My problem is with the "email provider" part. In the real world, it just means Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and handful of firms (like Rackspace) that provide hosted email solutions for a fee. You might call it "decentralized", but I'd call it "mostly centralized".

stavros on June 12, 2013 | [–]

Eh, so what? The only thing your provider knows is that you're trying to authenticate somewhere, but not where. It's hardly bad.

lucian1900 on June 12, 2013 | [–]

It's still way, way better than "Log in with Facebook" and has the potential to get even better over time.

kijin on June 12, 2013 | [–]

Of course it is, but it still ain't anything close to optimal.

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