With hacker attacks on the rise, Facebook Connect emerges as security solution (theverge.com)

Sam Hacker News's reaction is one thing, Reddit's will be a whole other ball game. They HATE FB login over there.

I'm glad to see people talking about this. I get that it's somewhat scary to depend on a third-party site for authentication to yours, but it seems like that tradeoff is more than worth it given how difficult it is to implement secure login. I've always thought that it's most important to spend time building features core to your product that differentiate it from others, and login is rarely one of those.

Also, we put a lot of effort into not just login security (keeping bad guys out) but also account recovery (letting good guys in), which is even more often overlooked. (I work on the team that builds login at Facebook).