The Bookmarklet Solution to the Password Problem
Simon Willison,
Sept 09, 2004
On the other hand, here's another solution to the password problem (one which won't get you indexed at Microsoft Central). This nifty script auto-generates a password based on a seed word and the name of the site you're trying to enter. And it seems to me that it wouldn't take a lot to completely automate this, so you basically don't see the password entry. Then, since they're bookmarks, people could save them or trade them, depending on whether they want to keep their account secret or share it with the world. My thinking is that userids and passwords work only if the user has an incentive to keep the password secret. But if the only purpose of registration is to facilitate data mining by advertisers, the incentive is not there.
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