Announcing the First Beta Release of Persona

I can not get Persona to work. I go to Mozilla developer network: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/ , see the login button and click on it and it redirects me back to the same page. I am using Firefox 15

Re: Announcing the First Beta Release of Persona

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Post by Too » Thu, Sep 27, 2012, 3:42 PM UTC

After reading the text twice and watching both videos i still have no clue what it actually does and how it solves the problem. I'm a few pages of skimming into the documentation now but there's no overview of what it actually does in the background.

Just a load of buzzwords and awesomeness!1 of how this will revolutionize my account management and how easy the API is.

Is it a password manager, a biometric system or some kind of account provider?

Re: Announcing the First Beta Release of Persona

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Post by nagnatron » Thu, Sep 27, 2012, 3:44 PM UTC

I would love to see this working.

Re: Announcing the First Beta Release of Persona

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Post by lmm » Thu, Sep 27, 2012, 3:45 PM UTC

don_draper wrote: post #3

One reason this looks good to me is that I trust Mozilla more than most organizations.

Ideologically? Yes. Technically? Not so much.

Re: Announcing the First Beta Release of Persona

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Post by j_col » Thu, Sep 27, 2012, 3:46 PM UTC

don_draper wrote: post #3

One reason this looks good to me is that I trust Mozilla more than most organizations.

Why? Genuine question, do you think their security will be better?

Re: Announcing the First Beta Release of Persona

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Post by beefsack » Thu, Sep 27, 2012, 3:46 PM UTC

Too wrote: post #5

After reading the text twice and watching both videos i still have no clue what it actually does and how it solves the problem. I'm a few pages of skimming into the documentation now but there's no overview of what it actually does in the background. Just a load of buzzwords and awesomeness!1 of how this will revolutionize my account management and how easy the API is. Is it a password manager, a biometric system or…

It's quite clever, essentially it's a system where your email address is your unique identifier, and you authenticate by clicking on a link sent to your email account.

The developer reference has much more information: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/persona

Re: Announcing the First Beta Release of Persona

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Post by riffraff » Thu, Sep 27, 2012, 3:50 PM UTC

the "check the documentation" link goes to https://developer.mozilla.org/it/Persona which 404s for me.

Maybe not redirecting based on user location by default is a good idea.