MS Passport and... Visa

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday July 9, 2002 @03:20AM from the brobdignagian dept.

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.

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Re:Rule of Aquisition M$101 by goldorak_dan · 2002-07-09 03:29 · Score: 0, Offtopic

No no no

First they get Passport,
Then you get their money,
Then you get the power,
Then you get the women.
Re:Wouldn't it be ironic.... by szo · 2002-07-09 03:37 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Jesus, the ironytroll is on the loose again! Get a life, man!

Szo

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Re:Weird, I read about this someplace before... by Verteiron · 2002-07-09 03:50 · Score: 0, Offtopic

19 And then I saw a wall of sort of swirling ducks in many colors, but mostly a plaid pattern, you know?
20 And there was a noise as of many syrupy sproingy things.

Nice guy, was old John, but a bit too fond of odd mushrooms...

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Re:New Passport Slogan by Rupert · 2002-07-09 05:23 · Score: 1, Offtopic

There was a kid a year or so ago who got hold of billg's credit card number and ordered a case of Viagra to be delivered to the great man's house.

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