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MS Passport and... Visa
HeUnique writes "Well, people have seen it coming. According to this story Microsoft is extending the Passport authentication system to process Credit card payment (currently: Visa and MasterCard) through a deal with Arcot Systems. Of course, with the ever-changing privacy terms that some companies keep changing without notifying their user - it won't take much long until they'll take your credit cards info for 'verification' and who knows what they'll do with it.. sigh.."
In a nutshell: "Microsoft and Arcot plan to offer, later this fall, a service that will let banks require computer users to type in their Passport username and password to authenticate Visa or MasterCard credit cards." Take the word "require" in that sentence with a grain of salt, I guess. Favorite quote: "People will start trusting the system now that it's linked to credit cards."
Sure.
Isnt it about time call up tyler durden to take out the credit card buildings thus destroying creditcard debt for america.... WAIT we got microsoft the next best thing, Tyler uses explosives and MS uses security holes!!
"All I can tell the "lesser of two evils" folks is that if they keep voting for evil, they'll keep getting evil."-Lp.org
Are we just crazy now?
Ignorant?
I will never associate my creditcards with anything microsoft.
I dont even care if they start making wallets!
EOU
....If you had to use a Microsoft Passport to buy add-free pages on slashdot....
Linux Redhat: $59
AOL Account: $20 a month
Contribution to OSS fund: $1000
Charging it to Bill Gates Credit Card: Priceless
There are some rights money can't buy.
For everything else, there's Microsoft Passport.
This Windows XP (tm) installation does not match the hardware profile recorded at activation. Press "OK" to charge credit card on file with Passport $199.99 for new Windows XP (tm) lisence. Press "Cancel" to remove the unauthorised copy of Windows XP (tm) from your system.
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11 Then I saw another beast which rose out of the earth; it had two horns like a lamb and it spoke like a dragon.
12 It exercises all the authority of the first beast in its presence, and makes the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose mortal wound was healed.
13 It works great signs, even making fire come down from heaven to earth in the sight of men;
14 and by the signs which it is allowed to work in the presence of the beast, it deceives those who dwell on earth, bidding them make an image for the beast which was wounded by the sword and yet lived;
15 and it was allowed to give breath to the image of the beast so that the image of the beast should even speak, and to cause those who would not worship the image of the beast to be slain.
16 Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead,
17 so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name.
18 This calls for wisdom: let him who has understanding reckon the number of the beast, for it is a human number, its number is six hundred and sixty-six.
Sounds like a marriage between Microsoft and Visa to me. In order to order, you have to bear the mark of the beast.
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
Here's my mail account and password.
...Anything to help you combat crime.
I swear I'll never use anything but Microsoft licensed software.
You already know where I live, where I shop and who I'm working for.
You have my drivers license and passport ID.
Voila: my credit card and -heck- here's my life savings too.
OK.
You can all have sex with my wife and daughter.
Spoken like someone who's employer doesn't require them to pay all travel expenses out of their own pocket and then wait for reimbursement.
Or someone who lives in a small shack in the mountains and writes manifestos and sends explosive packages through the mail.
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing -- Emo Phillips
Passport Prophesied?
Revelation 13:16-17
He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name.
Head down, go to sleep to the rhythm of the war drums...
Ooh.. i can just see the security implications in this one. Imagine what would happen if someone managed to write a malicous c#(or any other language here) script that could read the data as entered and redirect it.. That and .Net as is adds up to one helluva security risk. Pretty soon I will be willing to bet that this new method of "authentication" is going to tie directly to Longhorn and Palladium, and DRM, and all that crap. I sincerely believe that Microsoft is trying to turn every windows computer into a card-swipe-register...
We're sorry, your computing license has expired. Please swipe your card for service
NEWS: Dell, HPaq and Microsoft in a revoloutionary change have started adding card-swipe magnetic readers into the keyboards of their Longhorn enabled computers.
I won't be surprised if I get flamed for this but then again, why would MS be so hot on DRM and all of a sudden Palladium, and now this?
Partnership for an idiot free America!
But it will come to pass. M$ minions will tout their service as the best, most secure thing in the world since nobody can buy a friggin' thing because the server in Redmond has crashed after being cracked by the 11,111,111,111,111 script kiddie trying a new exploit.
It took me a moment to figure out that when you said, "11,111,111,111,111," you meant the number of script kiddies trying a new exploit. 111-1111111 used to work for Office 97 and NT4.0 OEM codes, so I wouldn't be surprised if it were some MSN administrator's password.
!#@%*)anks for hanging up the phone, dear.