Microsoft Defends Passport To Privacy Group

securitas writes: "CNET reports that Microsoft is defending Passport as safe and secure in a presentation to the Center for Democracy and Technology. Other organizations such as the Electronic Privacy Information Center, Junkbusters and even the U.S. government may be lobbied by MS this week to fend off a Federal Trade Commission complaint filed by 15 consumer and privacy groups that charges unfair and deceptive practices."

Comments

Well...

[Heph_Smith]

Well I feel safer....

Unfair Practices?

[Papa Legba]

Microsoft accused of unfair practices and deceptive techniques!?! I must say that I am shocked, schocked I tell you!

Unfortunatly I am uneligable for any such legal action against them as I think I gave them my soul in the last click thruogh agreement I did...

Re:Passport - Great idea, iffy implementation.

[demaria]

Yep Verisign.

Because web certificate authentication is so wonderful as it is today. :-)

I'd hate to have that job.

[nougatmachine]

Just imagine being the poor sap trying to defend Passport to privacy groups:

Privacy advocate: "So, you are trying to set yourself up as the one definitive source for our personal information online. Let's talk about your record: Hotmail backdoors, Code Red, Melissa, IIS, and Kournikova, among others, are horrible things which have been influenced by your poor implementations of products. And you want to have even more power?"

Microsoft PR guy: "Try to think of those as valuable lessons we have learned to make Passport more secure...

Re:I'd hate to have that job.

[dozing]

Hotmail backdoors, Code Red, Melissa, IIS, and Kournikova, among others

I find it funny that you list bugs and virii and include IIS in that list. (Not that I disagree mind you. It just seemed interesting)

Re:One password, multiple accounts, low security

[Rogerborg]

• I suggest you go get one

Yup, I just got me postmaster@fbi.gov and postmaster@usdoj.gov (all of the system_accounts@microsoft.com have already gone). I bet we can think of a few more good ones for when they start spamming their victims and/or sending out the "Nobody panic, but there is a tiny chance that your account may have been compromised..." shrieks.