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Note: If you never used an "@drupal.org" login to a site then you can gleefully ignore this post. It was a feature launched long ago and not widely used.
Hey Everybody,
It's been a long time coming, but we are now approaching the point where the old "distributed authentication" mechanism will be turned off on drupal.org.
For a while, the distributed authentication method was a great idea. Sites like spreadfirefox.com used the distributed authentication and it helped spread awareness of Drupal. It was an early idea for identity and federated websites and distributed social and all those fancy buzzwords.
But while the concept might have been visionary the implementation was not. It is not a super secure architecture, as perhaps the biggest complaint.
So, we will turn it off on drupal.org on November 1st, 2010.
Read more: http://drupal.org/node/926664