E-commerce Single Sign-On Not Dead Yet

Posted by timothy on Monday November 29, 2004 @09:50PM from the he'll-have-to-do-a-lot-of-convincing dept.

FullyIonized writes "A few years ago Microsoft's Passport technology made headlines as Microsoft predicted e-commerce nirvana and conspiracists predicted a new Big Brother. Not to be outdone, Sun spearheaded the Liberty Alliance . Years later, I still don't have a single sign-on, not that that's a bad thing. Enter Andre Durand who started his first business with BBS software, then headed up Jabber, and now has started Ping Identity. The big distinction: the federated identity software is open-source. The Denver Post has the story."

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Re:M$ is evil --Corrected by Invalid+Character · 2004-11-29 22:10 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Arrrg should have previewed! I know that made no sense at all, so this is what it should have been.
Many Linux users view Microsoft as the evil empire.
Me thinks this Ross Wehner has taken some of our fellow slashdotters too seriously

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Re:single logon means.. by dgr100 · 2004-11-29 22:12 · Score: 0, Flamebait

most users will have the same user/pass combination for most if not all their logins anyway.

I don't see how this offers *any* less security.