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Passport to Nowhere
prostoalex writes "CNET News.com.com talks about less than glamorous acceptance of Microsoft's single sign-on technology, .NET Passport. Being launched as a single sign-on service for online businesses and competing heavily with open Liberty Alliance project, which so far has produced just a large amount of PDF files, .NET Passport is considered a failure (although not by Microsoft). Turns out, high licensing fees, lack of simple implementation, security leaks and server downtime, were not acceptable to most of potential clients out there."
Turns out, high licensing fees, lack of simple implementation, security leaks and server downtime
Yet they still buy windows...
1. I have yet to meet someone who actually has (let alone uses) a .NET Passport.
2. If you are thinking about replying to this message with "I Do!", then I probably won't meet you, so see 1.
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
Interesting claim. Care to, you know, back it up with something?
Back it up? You must be new here.
"Turns out, high licensing fees, lack of simple implementation, security leaks and server downtime, were not acceptable to most of potential clients out there."
It's strange that this didn't appeal to most users who already use Windows. I would think people would tend to use things they are already familiar with.
You were expecting maybe .DOC files instead?
"Freedom means freedom for everybody" -- Dick Cheney
I just use a dummy password for all those newspapers anyway. I let the browser remember it.
Oh, and I'm not a 65-year old CEO living in Ethiopia, but don't tell that to the Washington Post.
Haven't read the replies (or the FA), but wasn't a big concern about Passport that you would need to sign over your first 3 children just to get authenticated?
Vote monkeys into Congress. They are cheaper and more trustworthy.
No, I'm New Here
Isn't that what Gator does too?
A fine is a tax you pay for doing wrong and a tax is a fine you pay for doing all right.
For each web site I visit, I have a user ID and then make up a 10 character random password. That's stored in a text file on my laptop which is then encrypted with PGP. When I need to log in to a site, I unencrypt the file, copy/paste the password into the browser, and wipe the file. This is a few more steps than what MS Passport does but is infinitely more valuable to me in making me feel my passwords are relatively secure. BOTH solutions rely on one password to protect all my accounts, but at least in my solution it's a 20-character phrase stored my head instead of one stored in Redmond.
They have the Internet on computers now?
I don't get it, I thought Gator already had all these features.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Who needs a back door when Microsoft is guarding your front door?