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Passport vs. Plan 9

Posted by michael on from the deus-ex-xml dept.

netphilter writes "LinuxWorld is carrying an article about how Apache and Plan 9 are going to defeat Microsoft's Passport. I hate Passport's integration with XP (although that might be because I hate XP). An Open Source single-sign on would be a real blessing. Will we ever get a good single sign-on solution?"

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  1. Thank god by Anixamander · · Score: 5, Funny

    Here I was worried that a company with billions of dollars would be able to dominate the market with their single sign on technology, but apparently some technology I have never heard of that is named after an Ed Wood movie will defeat it.

    Can we mod the article -1, Presumputous?

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    1. Re:Thank god by richieb · · Score: 5, Funny
      ... but apparently some technology I have never heard of that is named after an Ed Wood movie will defeat it.

      Apparently the guys that named this technology have a record for coming up with silly names. Just imagine they named their first project "UNIX". That project also faded into obsurity. Didn't it?

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  2. Single sign-ons. by Christopher+Thomas · · Score: 5, Funny

    Will we ever get a good single sign-on solution?

    Yes; several of them.

    Wait a minute...

  3. My plan... by T3kno · · Score: 5, Funny

    Plan 10: Blank Passwords.

    Why Plan 10? Heres why...

    1) No one cares about me
    2) Steal my credit cards they're maxed out anyways
    3) I probably wouldn't mind if you changed my investments you probably would make more money that I do in the stock market
    4) All of my email is mailing lists and spam, I have no friends
    5) You could probably accumulate more karma on /. that I can
    6) Sneak preview of my bank account $0.02 (which I'm giving away here right now)
    7) My social security number has been reused more times than the sayings "going forward" and "at the end of the day" combined
    8) All passwords are hackable by the NSA anyways
    9) At some point all information will be decrypted
    10) You can have my body, but you cant take my mind

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  4. The Day for Single-Sign-On by Kaz+Riprock · · Score: 4, Funny
    This day will come. But it will be at the time when we implant chips which contain the code for the single-sign-on. You will wave your hand over a pad and everything will come to life as you need it.

    This will also be The Day for Increased Finger Theft.

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  5. Re:single sign-on by unicron · · Score: 5, Funny

    The terms "linux" and "single" seem to go hand in hand.

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