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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
....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 $199.99 for new Windows XP (tm) lisence. Press "Cancel" to remove the unauthorised copy of Windows XP (tm) from your system.
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11 Then I saw another beast which rose out of the earth; it had two horns like a lamb and it spoke like a dragon.
12 It exercises all the authority of the first beast in its presence, and makes the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose mortal wound was healed.
13 It works great signs, even making fire come down from heaven to earth in the sight of men;
14 and by the signs which it is allowed to work in the presence of the beast, it deceives those who dwell on earth, bidding them make an image for the beast which was wounded by the sword and yet lived;
15 and it was allowed to give breath to the image of the beast so that the image of the beast should even speak, and to cause those who would not worship the image of the beast to be slain.
16 Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead,
17 so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name.
18 This calls for wisdom: let him who has understanding reckon the number of the beast, for it is a human number, its number is six hundred and sixty-six.
Sounds like a marriage between Microsoft and Visa to me. In order to order, you have to bear the mark of the beast.
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
Spoken like someone who's employer doesn't require them to pay all travel expenses out of their own pocket and then wait for reimbursement.
Or someone who lives in a small shack in the mountains and writes manifestos and sends explosive packages through the mail.
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing -- Emo Phillips
But it will come to pass. M$ 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.