E-commerce Single Sign-On Not Dead Yet

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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Funniest part of the article

[LeninZhiv]

Durand heads to the cocktail bar, reaches behind it and grabs a brand-new $200 Nokia N-Gage. Any self-respecting geek knows it's the coolest combination cellphone, e-mail device and video game around.

Greatest unintentional humour of the year!

Re:About time too

[oexeo]

> There's no way I can keep track of the 200-odd different passwords I have

Don't worry, I keep track of all your passwords for you

Re:Generating Passwords Using MD5

[oexeo]

Now I have a 33 character, fairly uncrackeable password.

It was fairly uncrackable password generation method, until you told *everybody!*

The article just lost any credibility it had

[Anonymous Coward]

Durand heads to the cocktail bar, reaches behind it and grabs a brand-new $200 Nokia N-Gage. Any self-respecting geek knows it's the coolest combination cellphone, e-mail device and video game around.

I take ithe authour has never spoken to any geek besides his 12 year old nephew who 'knows computers'

Shrug...

[Nijika]

Are we that shopaholic in this society that we can't type in a username and password to an online store before we buy buy buy?

Frankly I -want- to think before I click "purchase". I think the real benefactors of this technology aren't the consumers but stores that can rush you in and out the door as fast as possible.

Re:Sorry, some of you /.'s have not got a clue

[Anonymous Coward]

Reminds me off:

My root password is the name of my pet.

Of course my macaws name is Q!7h}i2/@1u4 and changes every 30 days.

Omelet Du Fromage

[Invalid Character]

Omelet Du Fromage.
"Access Denied."
Omelet Du Fromage!
"Access Denied."
Omelet Du Fromage!!!
"Access Denied: Self destruct mechanism activated...5"
GRRRRRRR!!!! OMELET DU FROMAGE!!
"...4"
OMELET DU FROMAGE!!
"...3"
OMELET DU FROMAGE!! OMELETE DU FROMANGE !!
"...2"
OMELET DU FROMAGE!! OMELETE DU FROMANGE !! OMELETE DU FROMANGE !!
"...1"
KABOOOOOM!!!

//Dunno if any of you ever remember/watched dexter's lab?

NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition!

[Anonymous Coward]

Our chief SSO is Athens...
Athens and MS Passport...MS Passport and Athens....
Our two SSOs are MS Passport and Athens...and Paypal....
Our *three* SSOs are MS Passport, Athens, and Paypal...
and an almost fanatical devotion to Bill Gates....
Our *four* ...no... *Amongst* our SSOs.... Amongst our Single Sign-On solutions...are such elements as...

Porn tried this...

[AndyChrist]

And tried it, and tried it. Everyone and their cousin set up some "adult verification" affiliate network, to the point where there's so damned many of them, with such scant content you may as well not have any consolidation of logins.

How is this any different? Why can any of these parties succeed where pornographers have failed? IS MICROSOFT BETTER THAN SMUT PEDDLERS?

Re:single logon means..

[rmezzari]

"it's impossible for any human to memorize hundreds of usernames and passwords"

Well, there is this nice software named "Gator eWallet" from the folks at Gator who helps you keep you passwords... Try it out! http://www.gator.com/home2.html