no it's not as flexible as OpenID - it's completely lame!

Problems with Infocards:

1. It's come from Microsoft

2. It assumes that users will move their private key/public key & cards around on a hardware token (USB)

3. They'll have to remember yet another bloody password to do the import/export on another PC/mobile device

OpenID is going to be a hard enough concept to a lot of people, and now the people with budgets that don't do ANY usability testing think that the 20% of the population who have and know what a USB stick is and how to use it; will be able to suss moving Infocards from device to device? And I reckon of those 20% who know what a USB stick is, then only a further 20% will be the maximum achievable uptake?

Question, how do people with this much research money get things sooo wrong?