Reply to post: Re: Using facebook to log in to Quora

Yet another mega-leak: 100 million Quora accounts compromised by system invaders

Nick Kew

Re: Using facebook to log in to Quora

In what sense "worse"?

If being tracked bothers you, then yes, you're cooperating with them. But for basic security, using OpenID (which I presume underlies logging in with Facebook) beats creating Yet Another Username/Password any day. At least on a site that's less critical than the OpenID provider.

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