{"id":6763,"date":"2005-01-05T11:25:28","date_gmt":"2005-01-05T18:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/01\/05\/no-passport-required.html"},"modified":"2005-01-05T11:25:28","modified_gmt":"2005-01-05T18:25:28","slug":"no_passport_req","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/05\/no_passport_req.html","title":{"rendered":"No Passport required"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"passport.png\"You know it’s a bad sign for a technology when the online list of customers vanishes. Thus it is for Passport, Micro$oft’s stab at online global identity management. Various major clients have backed away from it<\/a>, including Monster.com, and, now, eBay.<\/p>\n

Microsoft, for its part, discontinued its directory of sites using Passport. “The .NET Passport service offers streamlined sign-in at a wide range of Web sites and services,” Microsoft said on its Website. “We have discontinued our Site Directory, but you’ll know when you can use your Passport to make sign-in easier. Just look for the .NET Passport Sign In button!”<\/p>\n

The moves reflect recognition that, lacking a critical mass, there was no value to web sites to use Passport vs. a local identity management scheme. Further, since every other tech company under the sun except M$ is participating in an identity management scheme under the Liberty Alliance, even M$ finds it difficult to stand alone in this arena — which is why M$ is no longer actively marketing (though, for the moment, supporting) Passport.<\/p>\n

Which is probably not a bad thing. I’ve made use of Passport, and it was convenient enough, but I’ve always worried a bit about handing M$ the keys to website access, on top of everything else they dominate.<\/p>\n

More commentary here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You know it’s a bad sign for a technology when the online list of customers vanishes. Thus it is for Passport, Micro$oft’s stab at online global identity management. Various major…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hi-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1841,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/04\/22\/promotion_throu.html","url_meta":{"origin":6763,"position":0},"title":"Promotion through Inconvenience","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 22-Apr-02 9:10am","format":false,"excerpt":"Lots of folks are signing up for Micro$oft's Passport service, which, as part of its .NET strategy, allows one-screen sign-in and check-out at web sites. Of course, the reason a...","rel":"","context":"In "Hi-Tech"","block_context":{"text":"Hi-Tech","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/hi-tech"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2351,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/07\/09\/ch_ching_2.html","url_meta":{"origin":6763,"position":1},"title":"Ch-ching","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 9-Jul-02 6:20am","format":false,"excerpt":"A lot of folks have resisted Micro$oft's Passport program, given M$'s demonstrated screwball security and Mongol-Hordesque business tactics. Unfortunately, it looks like folks who want to use Visa cards on-line...","rel":"","context":"In "Hi-Tech"","block_context":{"text":"Hi-Tech","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/hi-tech"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":893,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/11\/04\/what_do_you_hav.html","url_meta":{"origin":6763,"position":2},"title":"What do you have in your wallet?","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 4-Nov-01 1:41pm","format":false,"excerpt":"An open-source programmer spent about a half-hour combining a couple of known web site vulnerabilities to come up with a mechanism to let someone exploit the Microsoft Passport scheme and...","rel":"","context":"In "Hi-Tech"","block_context":{"text":"Hi-Tech","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/hi-tech"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7336,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/03\/28\/terrorist_beaco.html","url_meta":{"origin":6763,"position":3},"title":"Terrorist beacons","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 28-Mar-05 2:20pm","format":false,"excerpt":"While the idea of putting RFID chips into US passports sounds, on first blush, like an interesting idea (providing remote reading and confirmation of passport contents), the implication -- that...","rel":"","context":"In "Homeland Security"","block_context":{"text":"Homeland Security","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/homeland-security"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12663,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/03\/01\/passport_to_adventure.html","url_meta":{"origin":6763,"position":4},"title":"Passport to Adventure!","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 1-Mar-08 11:03am","format":false,"excerpt":"Went down to the Post Office yesterday in Highlands Ranch to get Katherine's passport renewed. We got her one shortly after she was born, but it had expired. She's potentially...","rel":"","context":"In "Travel"","block_context":{"text":"Travel","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/travel"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12571,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/03\/21\/more_passporty_goodness.html","url_meta":{"origin":6763,"position":5},"title":"More passporty goodness","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 21-Mar-08 9:23pm","format":false,"excerpt":"NY Times coverage, including who did it, and when. Interesting that \"training exercises\" make it okay to access your relatives' passport files, but not a politician's. InformationWeek notes that it...","rel":"","context":"In "Elections 2008"","block_context":{"text":"Elections 2008","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/elections-2008"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}