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Analysis of Passport Flaws

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the something-to-think-about dept.

An anonymous reader sent us an excellent (and technical) paper describing problems with Passport its not lame anti ms rhetoric, its actually a well written technical assesment of security problems with the unified login that passport aims to achieve. This is a good read.

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  1. A quick grammar lesson for the stupid by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    its = possesive (i.e., belong to it)

    it's = contraction, for "it is".

    So:

    ...it's not lame anti ms rhetoric, it's
    actually a well written...

    Geez. Hire a high school student to proofread or something.

  2. Re:What the hell?!?! by ninjaz · · Score: 4, Informative
    "its not lame anti ms rhetoric"
    Is this supposed to suggest that other MS articles that are posted to /. *ARE* "lame anti ms rhetoric"?

    It sounds to me like it means: "This is not the same punditry you've seen before bemoaning MS being the holder of all keys, it is a technical discussion of the protocol/service".

    There was no mention of other Slashdot stories. I think it's assumed that Slashdot readers also consult various other sources of news and information (being that most of the stories are from reader submissions and all)

    /. isn't exactly renowned for it's editing, but this seems to be a new low.

    The post also has nothing to do with the article, we're given very little info.

    Slashdot has never been about the editing. It's about geeks swapping info/opinions/war stories/etc about the news of the day.

    If you want good editing, visit Linux Weekly News at http://www.lwn.net/. Or if you want to bash other people's editing, you can do that, and have the power to rate the story itself down, so it won't get posted, over at Kuro5hin - http://www.kuro5hin.org/

  3. Re:What the hell?!?! by Superkind · · Score: 3, Informative
    "its" does not require apostrophes in any of its incarnations, possessive or abbreviative.

    Actually, as an abbreviation for "it is" it does.

    --
    (In desperate search for a cool /. sig.)