Comments on: Passpack’s New Additions: Yahoo! and Facebook

By: Up Next: Twitter & Friendfeed Users Can Login to Passpack « Passpack Blog

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:13:13 +0000

[...] If they’re skeptical, let them know they can use their Google, Windows Live, OpenID, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter or Friend Feed login to get in and peek around before committing. Who knows, they may very [...]

By: louisevinciguerra

louisevinciguerra — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:41:48 +0000

@Nicola Mattina
MySpace. Of course. How could we leave them out ;)
@scrasm
2nd factor authentication is in the makes. You beat us to it! We will not be using Yubikey.

And just to clarify Tara’s above comment – we will slowly be adding more 3rd party logins – and there will be more than 8. But we are trying not to make all these icons overtake the sign in screen so there won’t be more than 8 (hopefully less) on the main grid.

By: srcasm

srcasm — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:48:29 +0000

Twitter would be a decent selection although Yubikey (http://www.yubico.com/products/yubikey/) or something similar in the hardware space my help with security.

By: Nicola Mattina

Nicola Mattina — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:48:13 +0000

I would consider MySpace!

By: Tara

Tara — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:38:31 +0000

:) Well, I’m certainly glad that you guys are so happy with Passpack that you prefer the standard login to another third party (and let’s face it, the standard login + remember me is still the fastest way to your Pack)..

RE: security. Yes, we started planning 3rd party logins almost a year ago. So we’ve been digesting and exploring the pros and cons for some time now. The (very) short answer is that we can do this thanks to the Packing Key. Maybe the long answer deserves a post unto itself.

But Why? We’re trying to reach some new folks. Ideally (and I speak personally here) the services that allow for further integration like Facebook (Apps) and Google (widget) hold the most potential for becoming really useful. No more than 8 though. That’s the size of the grid we set out to fill.

I do understand about screen space too. I have a similar feeling – too much stuff on my login screen, I want to go faster. We’ll definitely work on that.

That said – my vote is for twitter. :)

Keep the feedback coming!

(@Thor, I know I haven’t answered you properly yet – coming….)

By: Riccardo Cambiassi

Riccardo Cambiassi — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 10:19:07 +0000

if you’re on friendfeed chances are you’re already on some of the aforementioned services.
Go for twitter if you need to add more.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 10:16:26 +0000

I won’t be using anything besides the passpack login, possibly OpenID, and _maybe_ Gmail

By: GrrYumYum

GrrYumYum — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 01:36:10 +0000

The only “useful” login option is the OpenID one. IMO The rest just adds time to the loading of Passpack and eats up my desktop real estate.

By: LethAL

LethAL — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:39:15 +0000

Another vote for neither. All these extra login services (perhaps excluding OpenID, although I don’t use it anyway) are pointless.

I use passpack for my passwords because I know it’s secure. If I use my facebook account to log on, and that gets compromised (it’s more likely to be), then it’s game over.

By: Levi Wallach

Levi Wallach — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:06:31 +0000

I guess I’m not sure why you need any additional services to link to. My conception of Passpack is that it’s the master gatekeeper of my account information. It’s password system is theoretically more secure than any of these other sites, so why shouldn’t I use my passpack login rather than someone else’s? It seems like it’s more steps than necessary, or just circular. I mean, if I use my facebook account, I presumably would have to log into facebook first, but then I wouldn’t be able to use a long and complex password for facebook and rely on passpack to log me in via the the one-click log in. Can you explain why some people would want to use these other sites to log into passpack when they are then just going to use passpack to log into other sites?