Google Mobile Services…
Recently Russ posted a thought that he had in mind about doing a small project about universal identity service.
After reading that I had an extension on that idea and started thinking about a service for the consumers to get easy access to their passwords and other sensitive identity related data. We have seen tools like Gator and numerous other vault softwares that store your identity data on a local storage. Why not come up with a online service where users can store their identity data and thus have a easy access from any computer (unlike Gator).
Today after reading this post as I was going through the section where Google mentions some upcoming Mobile services, I kinda connected both the ideas and thought what could be done if we can link the online identity recovery system with a users cell phone? Users register online and use a client interface to store their identity data in a usual client-server mechanism. But when they are on a public PC where they dont have access to the client component, they can get the identity data via their cell phones. It could be something as simple as what Google mentions: password recovery system.
For the moment I am waiting on this one and see what Google has in mind from mobile point of view, now they have started accumulating cell numbers of US consumers.