Using your favourite websites and services could soon mean memorising far fewer passwords.Tech giants Microsoft, IBM, Google and Yahoo have joined the board of the Open ID Foundation which aims to streamline login systems across the web.The Foundation wants to bring about a system that could mean one ID acts as a guarantor of a person’s identity across all the sites they have signed up for.Already more than 10,000 websites have adopted the Open ID approach.
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