Comments on: digital concrete

By: David Waite

David Waite — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 21:03:39 +0000

Xeen, it is pretty much the same overall process flow from a user perspective as what you would do to rent a video. To initially be trusted by a video store, they may require a government id or the like – something you went through the trouble to get. You get to choose which ID you present (drivers license, military ID, passport) or of course have the option to present nothing at all.

By: xeen

xeen — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 21:51:29 +0000

Why would someone want to choose infocard? This sounds to me like a “cookie” that everyone can access to verifiy my ID. So, if every site can recognize me, it’ll be quite easy to built up an exact profile. Well, I’m not really sure if I should say “yay, nice new technology” or rather “screw you” since, well. What’s infocard about anyway? Well, logins, but what except that? I don’t get it.

By: Gemal's Psyched Blog

Gemal's Psyched Blog — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 21:44:04 +0000

Microsoft looks to spread authentication technology to Firefox

Looking to ease the way customers manage their digital identities, Microsoft has begun working to integrate its InfoCard authentication technology with Internet Explorer and is in discussions with the Firefox and Safari browser developers to have them ...

By: shaver

shaver — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 19:04:35 +0000

I’m not looking to determine our identity capabilities by barter, with MSFT or anyone else. We’ll support InfoCard if it makes sense for us to support InfoCard.

By: Andy Burns

Andy Burns — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 17:58:49 +0000

Perhaps a list of bargaining chips should be drawn up, we'll support infocard if you support ...

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