[TOS] Wiki cleanup status report

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2011/3/8 Frederick Grose - fgrose at gmail.com:
> I find that authenticating through OpenID is less onerous than repetitive
> edit confirmations, and allows TOS folks to not focus on the authentication
> arms race.
> See
> http://mail.teachingopensource.org/pipermail/tos/2010-August/001479.html
> or
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2010-July/034683.html
>      --Fred

Please educate me.

Does OpenID not represent a single point of failure for all my login
credentials if I use it?
Does OpenID not represent a beginning point for the aggregation of my
participation in Internet communities?

I don't like Unsolicited Commercial Email, also known as SPAM, but I
don't want my authentication credentials easily disabled nor used to
track my activity (part of my past employment included some
professional paranoia, also known as security administration).

If you implement OpenID, please also preserve existing account credentials.