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Story: Microsoft revisits Passport with InfoCard

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What's the diff?

With Passport they wanted to store your identity and credentials. Now they want to be the one and only mechanism provider that enables a key to unlock your own data (that ofcourse "supports" rival systems to some extend when and for as long as needed). The achieved lock-in is still the same: try to replace them and end up with loosing access to your own data (DRM anyone?). The only things missing is the EU not coming down hard on Microsoft for still not complying to EU rules, the EU allowing Software Patents (or whatever it's called nowedays) and the EU giving the BSA what it wants.

Also interesting to note that InfoCard at first will mostly be about "functionality" rather then "security" and that some will claim that it was "customer demand" that called for InfoCard and that's why, some time in the future, it should be pushed down as a default service on each and every Windows PC out there which the average user won't be able to de-install and therefor will use whenever a pop-up advises them to do so. Thus turning it into a de-facto "standard" instantly even before the right people will start waking up to things they weren't aware of before to then go into re-active damage control mode as usual and trying to talk things down.

All animals are equal but some are more equal then others.

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