[ora600]

You see, passwords suck. Big time. They are extremely vulnerable to brute-force attacks, people forget them, people write them down on post-it notes, and people use the same password on every single site. Not to mention that the website has to store your password securely, and not every website has amazing track record doing that.

Passwords make the world less secure.

So we need to replace them with something. And that "something" has to be secure and easy to use.

Turns out that this is a difficult problem to solve, so we keep trying. I agree that OpenID is not exactly the perfect solution, but it doesn't mean that there is no problem to solve.

[kpanghmc]

I never said that there wasn't a problem. I'm simply saying that the solutions we've come up with so far have not yielded a net gain. If anything, the site owners that I know who have incorporated OpenID / Facebook Connect / etc. into their sign up / login forms have said that they have to answer more questions from users having login issues than ever before.