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  Mozilla Offers Alternative To OpenID

  Posted: January 21st, 2012, 2:31pm CET by timothy

  Tags:  mozilla  

  Orome1 writes "Mozilla has been working for a while now on a new browser-based system for identifying and authenticating users it calls BrowserID, but it's only this month that all of its sites have finally been outfitted with the technology. Mozilla aims for BrowserID to become a more secure alternative to OpenID, the decentralized authentication system offered to users of popular sites such as Google, Yahoo!, PayPal, MySpace and others."

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