Most people don't know / care. It seems only the technically inclined & paranoid lose sleep over this. Until somebody they know gets hit by identity theft, that is ...

> Most people don't even share their passwords with their spouses - why would they give it to an third party website on the internet?

websites on the net won't withhold sex for three days because I said emailed an ex.

More seriously, it's obvious why no one follows his recomendation. Not only is google's page and extra step, but it's intimidating as hell!

http://www.venturecake.com/images/google_authentication.png

I don't see an easy way to fix this problem while letting these sites keep the high percentage of people releasing their contact lists.

The 'This website has not registered with Google' is only true for websites that haven't registered with Google - which mine has not.

It would go away for sites that have registered with Google - which I don't think would be too hard. Unfortunately, I couldn't find any sites that used Google authentication at all. I think this probably has something to do with the whole 'why bother supporting every proprietary identity scheme' thing.

Facebook has extensive dossiers that its users unwisely volunteered and I predict it is all going to end in tears.

John Connor is not a Facebook user.

That was as far as I got on the facebook signup.