I guess the community board members won’t subscribe to a sentence like this one: Google, Yahoo and Microsoft have supported the OpenID Foundation for quite some time - now apparently they want to take over the helm themselves.

Also it’s odd that the author first writes about the dangers of phishing and then suggests that users might choose (among other providers) ClaimID over Yahoo! (because it was supposedly using login data for commercial interests). I like ClaimID a lot but it wasn’t my first choice if phishing was a major concern to me. Unlike providers like MyOpenID and VeriSign PIP it allows direct login from the landing page.

Also it’s strange to read that OpenID was worrying for privacy advocates and law enforcement agencies. Though the author doesn’t quote anyone to prove that assumption. While privacy concerns are mentioned in the article, it is not mentioned at all why it might be worrying to law enforcement.

Well, the article could be much worse actually. For those who don’t know, Der Spiegel is the leading German weekly news magazine (about 1 million sold copies each week). Its online edition also ranks number one with 70 million visits each month; it’s also the most quoted source on the German net.