URL relationship permanence

Martin Atkins mart at degeneration.co.uk
Thu Jun 30 17:23:37 PDT 2005


Xageroth Sekarius wrote:
> LID gets around this problem by being the server as well and therefore the
> assertions from the URL endpoint and assertions by the server are the
> same.

I don't really see how this helps. If you lose the domain your in, 
someone can still pose as you by running a LID endpoint on their 
newly-aquired domain that happens to be the same as that of a 
pre-existing user. They just need to install LID's CGI script.



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