Microsoft Opens Up Windows Live ID

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday August 16, 2007 @04:39PM from the ready-for-the-masses dept.

randommsdev writes "Microsoft has announced the release of Windows Live ID Web Authentication. This means that WLID (formerly known as Passport) is now opened to third party websites to use as their authentication system. Any Windows Live user can potentially log in to a website that implements Web Authentication. Interestingly sample implementations are available in the Ruby, Python, Perl, and PHP open source languages amongst others — tested on openSUSE 10.2 but expected to work on any platform that supports these languages. More details are available in the SDK documentation."

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Re:How long by SgtChaireBourne · 2007-08-16 17:10 · Score: 5, Informative

[How long] Until the first site with a fake passport login form shows up? ...
It doesn't matter so much, it's not like MS WLID, formerly known as MS Passport can ever be made secure. It's fundamentally flawed from the design.

However, all the bad press was about MS Passport, so a simple name change and, Voila, no bad press about the product. Palladium was sanitize the same way.

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