The Sun-backed group will unveil the detailed workings of their Liberty Alliance specification–leading the way to build “single-sign-on” Web sites and software. Read the report at ZDNews.
Liberty Alliance Set to Battle Passport
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… or does this sound like the same thing, just with a different name & different backers?
Either way, I personally don’t like the concept of having a “one key, many locks” approach.
How many of the alleged 14 million passport users know that they have a passport account. If you have a hotmail account you have a passport. If you have winxp you have a passport account. How many of the signed up for passport on purpose?
These commercial bastards are competing to harvest ‘consumer’ data, but I don’t personally know any ‘consumers’ who really want their data harvested to begin with.
I don’t know why, but whatever is backed by Sun I will trust. maybe that’s because Sun makes “reliability, stability and security” instead of “clippy”.
You trust Sun so much you have to post anonymously, eh?
I agree with Dave. One key is not the answer. Neither is having one keeper of the information.
maybe now there will be a system that dosn’t consider my name – ‘paddy’ to be illegal
Once upon a time, Thomas Jefferson wrote:
“All eyes are opened…to the rights of man. …the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them…”.
In today’s world, far removed from the vision of the founding fathers, when you need an answer to why the consumer is largely just a farm animal waiting to be harvested:
http://www.tysknews.com/Depts/gov_philosophy/socialism_ascending.ht…
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