[IxDA Discuss] email address as username

[Peter Bagnall]

I absolutely agree with Giles on this. If you want to ensure security  
make sure the passwords are strong.

And to add another advantage with usernames being email addresses,  
you're guaranteed that the email addresses are unique. It's not  
uncommon to try to create a username that is some version of your  
name only to find someone else has beaten you to it. In that case you  
have to use a variant, and that's something you can easily forget.  
Email addresses are less likely to be forgotten, although there is a  
potential problem if people change their email addresses - but even  
then they are more likely to remember their old ones than to remember  
an obscure username.

Cheers
--Pete

On 27 Oct 2006, at 13:21, Gilles Demarty wrote:
> Another way to say this is : You have first to state who you are (with
> a login name, an email, etc...), and  then you have to prove that you
> are really who you are claiming (with a piece of information that you
> only knows, or owns, or that is part of you.)

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