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The Future of Windows Software Distribution
Diomidis Spinellis writes "Microsoft's Windows Marketplace Labs offer a preview of their Digital Locker technology. The Digital Locker uses Microsoft's Passport Network to allow Windows users to search, buy, and download software from multiple retailers, storing their product keys for future installations. Both retailers offering the service support digital rights management technologies: Digital River promotes its SoftwarePasport, and eSsellerate its Product Activation technology. Will this technology trigger an across-the-board adoption of DRM for Windows software? How will it affect the distribution of free and open-source software?" -
OpenID - Open Source Single-SignOn
Nurgled writes "Danga Interactive, who created LiveJournal and memcached, is working on a new decentralized single-signon system called OpenID. Similar in principle to Six Apart's TypeKey or MSN Passport, OpenID will allow you to assert a single identity to any OpenID-supporting site. The difference here is that there is no central authenticating server: anyone can run one, and Danga's reference implementations will be open-source. The site you are authenticating with never sees your username or password, just a one-time token. You can read the initial announcement on LiveJournal, though some details have changed since that post, so be sure to read the information on the official site." -
eBay Retires MS Passport Sign-In
fihzy writes "eBay have announced they will retire Microsoft Passport Sign-In and .NET alerts. The Microsoft Passport Directory of Sites has been discontinued, too. Is Microsoft's Single Sign-On vision edging towards oblivion?" -
E-commerce Single Sign-On Not Dead Yet
FullyIonized writes "A few years ago Microsoft's Passport technology made headlines as Microsoft predicted e-commerce nirvana and conspiracists predicted a new Big Brother. Not to be outdone, Sun spearheaded the Liberty Alliance . Years later, I still don't have a single sign-on, not that that's a bad thing. Enter Andre Durand who started his first business with BBS software, then headed up Jabber, and now has started Ping Identity. The big distinction: the federated identity software is open-source. The Denver Post has the story." -
The Liberty Alliance Grows Again
sempf writes "The Liberty Alliance, a Sun-backed open-specification alternative to the Microsoft platform's Passport system, has added two very powerful members, Oracle and Intel. Now over 150 members, one wonders at the future of a world where we have two single sign-on systems. With the three big IM platforms joining forces, is the identity standard of the world going to be Microsoft, or Sun? Is this going to be the next Browser War?" -
Passport to Nowhere
prostoalex writes "CNET News.com.com talks about less than glamorous acceptance of Microsoft's single sign-on technology, .NET Passport. Being launched as a single sign-on service for online businesses and competing heavily with open Liberty Alliance project, which so far has produced just a large amount of PDF files, .NET Passport is considered a failure (although not by Microsoft). Turns out, high licensing fees, lack of simple implementation, security leaks and server downtime, were not acceptable to most of potential clients out there." -
Block Spam Bots With Free CAPTCHA Service
Chirag Mehta writes "I just released a freeware service called BotBlock (barebones demo) that lets site owners copy/paste a few lines of PHP code and insert a CAPTCHA image-verification system into any web form. The amount of form spamming by bots is on a rise. While remedies exist for MT blogs, a more efficient solution is to use image-verification or text-identification. Used for a while by sites like Yahoo! (scroll to bottom), Hotmail and patented in 2001 by AltaVista, CAPTCHAs are now being used more widely. PARC also came up with two algorithms Baffletext and Pessimal Print. The technology always existed, but until now required the site owners to install image libraries and understand how to generate images that cannot be OCR'ed. With BotBlock it is like inserting a page counter." -
Cancelling your Passport.NET Account?
An anonymous reader asks: "i read on the Passport.NET site that 'Microsoft has announced plans to discontinue the .NET Passport express purchase service' AKA .NET Passport wallet. This may well be old news but the reason i stumbled on it is I want to discontinue my Passport account. There is a link on the account maintainace page that allows just this - however it bounced me to my Hotmail account which I had to close first. However my Passport account is still open and when I try to close it I just get bounced to the Hotmail reactivation page... (the reason i am so hyper about this is anger at being automatically opted-ini to two seperate information sharing schemes without being asked - no wonder there was so much spam! Have any of you had a similar problem closing your account? Has anyone managed? If so how?" -
Cancelling your Passport.NET Account?
An anonymous reader asks: "i read on the Passport.NET site that 'Microsoft has announced plans to discontinue the .NET Passport express purchase service' AKA .NET Passport wallet. This may well be old news but the reason i stumbled on it is I want to discontinue my Passport account. There is a link on the account maintainace page that allows just this - however it bounced me to my Hotmail account which I had to close first. However my Passport account is still open and when I try to close it I just get bounced to the Hotmail reactivation page... (the reason i am so hyper about this is anger at being automatically opted-ini to two seperate information sharing schemes without being asked - no wonder there was so much spam! Have any of you had a similar problem closing your account? Has anyone managed? If so how?"