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	Encyclopedia: Microsoft Passport (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Microsoft Passport Network is a "universal-login" service provided by Microsoft that allows users to log in to many websites using one account.
		Many of these websites include Microsoft services such as Hotmail, the.NET Messenger Service or MSN subscriptions, but there are also several other companies affiliated with Microsoft that use it, such as RadioShack.
		Passport was criticised by the Electronic Frontier Foundation's staff attorney Deborah Pierce as a potential threat to privacy after it was revealed that Microsoft would have full access and usage to customer information.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Microsoft-Passport (450 words)

	Risks of the Passport Single Signon Protocol
		Passport's protocols are designed to enable the secure transfer of this profile and wallet information between the Passport server and the merchants.
		Passport cookies, though, are also proofs of authentication whose lifetimes are determined only by the lifetime of the web browser and the (encrypted) time window in the cookie.
		Passport's use of SSL cannot at this point prevent the proxy from reading and possibly rewriting each packet, as all SSL connections are terminated on the proxy, and the user is unlikely to notice the proxy acting on her behalf.
	avirubin.com /passport.html (4739 words)

	Passport / Mono
		Microsoft Passport is a centralized database hosted by Microsoft that enhances the consumer experience with the Web by providing a single logon system that they can use across a number of participant web sites.
		Passport is important not because of it being a breakthrough technologically speaking, but because the company is in a position to drive most people toward being suscribers of it.
		Microsoft Developers Network and according to the original announcement from Microsoft American Express and EBay will be adopting it.
	www.go-mono.com /passport.html (1357 words)

	Curiosity is bliss: Microsoft Passport 101
		When he is sent to Passport to get authenticated, the cookies in the Passport domain are used to generate a ticket for Site2.
		Passport Manager can then check the presence and content of this cookie to confirm that the ticket wasn't stolen by sniffing the network.
		Passport, as all authentication systems, is a trade-off between security and convenience.
	blog.monstuff.com /archives/000167.html (1906 words)

	Microsoft Passport to Trouble
		Microsoft is attempting to position their Passport single sign on authentication service as the one single identity that an Internet user should need to perform all their online activities.
		Microsoft has made various public statements about how they will be enhancing Passport in the future, however most of them are only vague suggestions, without firm commitments or details.
		Microsoft Passport is a centralized user authentication service purporting to allow easy and secure authorization of users to participating web sites.
	alive.znep.com /~marcs/passport (1050 words)

	Microsoft beefs up Passport security \| CNET News.com
		Microsoft officially launched the authentication service in March 1999, later requiring its use in MSN Messenger and other Microsoft products.
		Microsoft requires consumers to use an e-mail address as their Passport ID, but had not mandated that the address be legitimate or belong to the account holder.
		Microsoft is moving all the information viewed in a Web browser, such as the login page or member services, to servers hosted in a domain separate from the authentication components.
	news.com.com /2100-1001-956246.html (1790 words)

	Wired News: Stealing MS Passport's Wallet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The bugs in Passport, a sign-on service used by more than 200 million people, were discovered this week by Marc Slemko, a software developer who lives near Microsoft's Redmond, Washington, headquarters.
		The attack raises new questions about the inherent security of Passport, which is being positioned by Microsoft as the linchpin of its.NET e-commerce service initiative.
		Prior to being fixed by Microsoft, the authentication flaws discovered by Slemko could enabled an attacker "to do anything as if they were the Passport holder," including editing the user's portfolio at MoneyCentral, or changing user's auctions at eBay, he said.
	www.wired.com /news/technology/0,1282,48105,00.html (720 words)

	IT Architect \| Emerging Technology: Microsoft's Passport to Controversy \| March 4, 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Microsoft's strategy of XML everywhere is centered on developer's tools such as Visual Studio.NET and C#.
		Microsoft hopes to entice Web surfers to use Passport's SSI service to free them from remembering multiple user names and passwords for every Web site that requires signing in.
		Passport includes an optional wallet function, called Express Purchase, enabling users to digitally store credit card numbers, expiration dates, and billing and shipping addresses in their Passport account.
	www.itarchitect.com /article/NMG20020304S0003 (1398 words)

	Security Flaw Shows Microsoft Passport Identities Can't Be Trusted
		Microsoft indicates it has resolved the problem and does not know of any accounts that were breached.
		Microsoft failed to thoroughly test Passport's security architecture, and this flaw — uncovered more than six months after Microsoft added the vulnerable feature to the system — raises serious doubts about the reliability of every Passport identity issued to date.
		Whether any attackers exploited this flaw before Microsoft patched the problem is important to enterprises that depend on Passport identities, but it doesn't affect the actions they must take to limit the damage.
	www3.gartner.com /DisplayDocument?doc_cd=114948 (622 words)

	PCWorld.com - No Go-Ahead Stamp for Microsoft's Passport
		Microsoft has "learned a lot" over the past few years from working with partners and customers using Passport and has adjusted its ambitions for Passport accordingly, said Brooke Richardson, lead product manager for MSN at Microsoft.
		Additionally, Passport faced competition from the Liberty Alliance, which was formed in late 2001 and set out to create an open authentication platform as opposed to Microsoft's proprietary Passport technology.
		Microsoft and Sun have said that identity management is one of the first areas in which they hope to achieve interoperability.
	www.pcworld.com /news/article/0,aid,118229,pg,1,RSS,RSS,00.asp (705 words)

	Microsoft's Passport to doom \| Tech News on ZDNet
		Passport is Microsoft's attempt to create a 'single sign on' system so people don't have to remember hundreds of passwords and usernames in order to go shopping online.
		For some reason, Microsoft decided to use a simple URL for Passport's password change function, which means that if I wanted to break into your Passport account, all I needed to know was your username.
		In the terms and conditions of Passport, it says: "Microsoft is not responsible for any loss that you may incur as a result of any unauthorized person using your account or your password." So even though its software is flawed, if someone takes advantage of that flaw, Gates and co. are not responsible.
	news.zdnet.com /2100-9595_22-1001443.html (730 words)

	Microsoft to curtail Passport service - Financial Times - MSNBC.com
		Microsoft is abandoning one of its most contentious attempts to dominate the Internet after rival technology companies banded together in opposition and consumers failed to embrace it.
		At one time or another, Passport attracted the ire of privacy advocates, trade regulators on two continents and technology security experts, who in 2003 found a hole that could have led to massive identity theft.
		Adam Sohn, marketing director for Microsoft MSN Internet services, said the pullback was driven by Microsoft's decision to focus on building tools that other companies could use to create their own Internet programs, instead of offering the programs itself.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6769205 (578 words)

	Sign Out of Microsoft Passport
		Microsoft Kids Passport allows parents to consent to the collection, use and sharing of their children's information with Microsoft and with participating Passport Web sites that have agreed to utilize Kids Passport as their parental consent process.
		Passport tracks the behavior and divulges the personal information of Hotmail customers who neither have been notified of their Passport accounts, nor have granted permission for such use of their information.
		Microsoft is aware of significant risks that users will have their personal information, including their credit card numbers, disclosed to others when the Passport service is used at a shared or public terminal, which could include a computer in a library, community center, workplace, or airport lounge.
	www.epic.org /privacy/consumer/microsoft (3115 words)

	CBS News \| Microsoft's Passport Flaw Fixed \| May 8, 2003 14:51:39
		Microsoft acknowledged the flaw affected all its 200 million Passport accounts but said it fixed the problem early Thursday, after details were published on the Internet.
		Microsoft shut down the affected Web address late Wednesday night, more than one hour after details were published on the Internet.
		Passport, which is closely tied to Microsoft's flagship Windows XP software, is integral to its most important upcoming technology services.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2003/01/30/tech/main538597.shtml (772 words)

	No-go zone for Passport \| CNET News.com
		The company's withdrawal of support and Microsoft's changes to the service were not unexpected developments and part of the planned evolution of Passport, Microsoft responded in a statement.
		Much like countries' passport systems, from which Microsoft's service takes its name, federated identity services allow users to be "citizens" of certain services and have those services vouch for their identity.
		The risks for companies of relying on a single provider of authentication services were highlighted when several flaws were revealed in Microsoft's Passport last year.
	news.com.com /No-go+zone+for+Passport/2100-7345_3-5507991.html?tag=nefd.lede (845 words)

	Microsoft .NET Passport -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Microsoft Passport is a "universal-login" service provided by (Click link for more info and facts about Microsoft) Microsoft that allows users to log in to many (Click link for more info and facts about website) websites using one account.
		Users of (Click link for more info and facts about Hotmail) Hotmail or (Click link for more info and facts about MSN) MSN automatically have a Microsoft Passport that corresponds to their accounts.
		Passport was criticised by the (Click link for more info and facts about Electronic Frontier Foundation) Electronic Frontier Foundation's staff attorney Deborah Pierce as a potential threat to privacy after it was revealed that Microsoft would have full access and usage to customer information.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/mi/microsoft_.net_passport3.htm (198 words)

	USATODAY.com - EBay latest to jettison Microsoft Passport service (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Microsoft once had big plans for Passport, which was designed to let Internet users have a single "username" and password that could be used on the Web sites of many different companies.
		Microsoft acquired the Passport technology when it bought Firefly Network, a software company, in 1998.
		Microsoft once gave Passport a good bit of attention, but it was last mentioned in one of the Redmond, Wash., software giant's annual reports in 2000.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/products/services/2005-01-03-ebay-passport_x.htm (309 words)

	PCWorld.com - Tools Vendor Readies Passport for Linux
		Now that Microsoft has opened the code for the critical piece of software that enables Web site operators and software makers to link to the Passport service, Ready-to-Run said it has been given the nod to sell the software it created as a packaged product, according to Bill Saltys, vice president.
		Ready-to-Run has licensed the Passport Manager source code from Microsoft for nearly two years, during which time it was responsible for porting Passport Manager to Unix systems in use by Weather Channel Enterprises and the digital music download service PressPlay, run by Vivendi Universal and Sony Music Entertainment.
		Microsoft said Ready-to-Run is likely to be the first in a series of software vendors that will come out with Passport software for non-Windows systems using the shared source code.
	www.pcworld.com /news/article/0,aid,105972,00.asp (441 words)

	Q&A: Microsoft's Agreement with the Federal Trade Commission on Passport: Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith and ...
		Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith and Corporate Vice President Brian Arbogast respond to questions about an agreement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission concerning the Passport authentication service.
		Passport Wallet sites are required to employ encryption technologies that clearly are safer than providing credit card information in the clear.
		While it is worth noting that many Passport Wallet merchants did not adopt these encryption technologies until they were added as support for the Passport Wallet, we have recognized the FTC's point and have already changed the language in our advertising.
	www.microsoft.com /presspass/features/2002/aug02/08-08passport.asp (1631 words)

	Joel on Software - Does Issuing Passports Make Microsoft a Country?
		Microsoft is a large, diverse company with many smart people and many ethical people; they have many great products and some pathetic products, too.
		Passport will be built into IE, it will be built into the operating system, and it will be made available as a programming interface so that developers can use it, and frankly, there goes your last defense against corporations building up gigantic super-databases with outrageous amounts of personal information about everyone.
		If Microsoft was honest about protecting your privacy, they would let users keep their private information on their own computers, and they would ask you every time they were going to reveal some data.
	www.joelonsoftware.com /articles/fog0000000047.html (2363 words)

	$2 trillion fine for Microsoft security snafu? \| The Register
		Microsoft's latest security lapse with its Passport information service could trigger a $2.2 trillion fine on the company courtesy of the US government.
		Microsoft on Thursday admitted that a flaw in the password reset tool of its Passport service could compromise the information stored on all 200 million users.
		He was able to access Passport accounts at will by typing "emailpwdreset" into a URL that has the e-mail address of a user account and the address where a reset message can be sent.
	www.theregister.co.uk /content/6/30620.html (445 words)

	Microsoft Corporation
		Microsoft Corporation has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges regarding the privacy and security of personal information collected from consumers through its "Passport" web services.
		You can choose to allow Passport to share all of the information in your child's Passport profile with a participating site or service, or you can limit the information shared to just a unique identifier or age range.
		Passport did not collect any personally identifiable information other than that described in its privacy policy when, in fact, Passport collected and held, for a limited time, a personally identifiable sign-in history for each user; and
	www.ftc.gov /opa/2002/08/microsoft.htm (624 words)

	Microsoft pushes Passport in Windows XP \| CNET News.com
		Microsoft has long contended that it has a right to bundle products with the operating system.
		While earlier test versions of XP offered Passport account sign-up during the installation process, that will not be the case when the product ships in later October, said Microsoft spokeswoman Erin Cullen.
		Microsoft also offers businesses more choices than it does to consumers, who typically would use Microsoft's authentication services, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said this week in an interview with CNET News.com.
	news.com.com /2100-1001-268827.html (2058 words)

	EPIC Microsoft Passport Investigation Page
		Microsoft officials have stated that the goal of the system is to create a profile of every Internet user, to upsell individuals to subscription accounts, and to engage in ad targeting of Passport members.
		Microsoft has positioned itself to make Passport the tollbooth to the Internet, but the antitrust settlement does not address how the company may use Passport to control access to content and e-commerce.
		These include a requirement that Microsoft have a specific, legitimate purpose for collection of the data; a right of access to the information collected; the requirement that consent be freely given when required; and notice to national data protection authorities.
	www.epic.org /privacy/consumer/microsoft/passport.html (2413 words)

	kbAlertz: (280570) - When you attempt to use the Sign out of Microsoft Passport command, the command may be unavailable ...
		In Microsoft Excel 2002, the Sign out of Microsoft Passport command is available, but when you click it,...
		Sign out of Microsoft Passport command, the command may be unavailable and you are therefore unable to sign out.
		Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.
	www.kbalertz.com /Feedback_280570.aspx (717 words)

	Microsoft Passport License Dangers
		Even after Microsoft bowed to public pressure and changed their contract language, this will serve as a reminder for what they tried to slip past us.
		All your data (and biz plans) are belong to Microsoft by Andrew Orlowski.
		Pay-to-Play: Microsoft erects.NET tollgate: by Andrew Orlowski Posted: 3/19/2001 at 19:15 GMT -- We knew all along that Microsoft's core competancy is monopolization.
	www.troubleshooters.com /passport (583 words)

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