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Stamping Passport
Mark Burnett, 2005-01-10

Microsoft can save its ailing authentication service, but only by scaling back its expectations on what kinds of accounts Passport is fit to secure.

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Stamping Passport 2005-01-10
Tommy Ward
Passport failed because there is not a critical mass of end users who trust Microsoft.

We do need ubiquitious, trusted centralized authentication services, but MS is not the vendor that can garner the requisite trust. Actually, no software vendor is.

The USPS tried to do this in the mid-90'...

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