Handshake – Decentralized naming and certificate authority

>Just released, Handshake brings with it the much needed security and reliability on which we rely... The project and protocol has been led by Joseph Poon (creator of Bitcoin's Lightning Network), Andrew Lee (CEO of Purse), Andrew Lee (founder of Private Internet Access or PIA) and Christopher Jeffrey (CTO of Purse).

This is far more than just someone who donated some money. The claims of guilt by association here are not just association. Andre Lee was 1 of the 4 people leading the project. He'll no doubt continue with the above disengenous BS but the facts are there for anyone that lived through it or who cares to look.

The latest basket in which everyone is putting all their eggs is federated login using one of a few giant tech companies (mostly Google) as OIDC providers.

Should I bother saying "I told you so" when these providers start arbitrarily blocking access to peoples' apps for stupid reasons (e.g. policy enforcement bots), abusing login privileges to harvest user data off other platforms (after silently amending their EULAs to give themselves permission to do this), or charging for the right to log into your stuff?

My money is on the last one happening in the next few years. "After January 1st of next year, the use of your Google|Apple|Facebook account to log into third party services will require a subscription..." Why wouldn't they want to collect a tax on every SSO login?

While I doubt major providers are actually abusing login credentials to access third party services (yet?) I'm sure they are gathering all the data they can on who logs into what, from where, and how often. It's a privacy nightmare, but nobody cares about privacy. Nobody will care until they are inconvenienced.