If you glance at Johannes Ernst's latest blog post, Why We Really Don't Need an "Identity Selector" , you might think he's speaking out against identity clients, but in reality, he's speaking out against identity "selectors." That is, the idea that the most important, useful feature of such a client is "selecting" an identity. He says: The correct product is not a "selector" It also must be: An identity "de-selector", with which the user can become anonymous again (or perhaps even remove all the information from the site which was conveyed during the "identity selection" phase) The much-desired "single sign out of the web" button should logically reside there. An identity-aware session "visualizer", which conveys to the user that there they have open sessions with which sites, which of the user's identities are currently used with which site, which others they
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