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Presentation and paper from Air Mozilla on the subject of distributed authentication. "While the Internet was conceived as a decentralized network, the most widely used web applications today tend toward centralization. Control increasingly rests with centralized service providers..." The paper argues that decentralized authentication faces difficult hurdles and "presents recommendations for designers for working toward more achievable goals, with particular emphasis on the role of browser vendors." #indieweb

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