Re: [LUG] OK so whats wrong with it?

On 2/8/07, Benjamin A'Lee <bma@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 11:44:35AM +0000, Julian Hall wrote:
> Tom Potts wrote:
> > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6339813.stm
> > Just as I was beginning to think this was perhaps workable M$ support it - I
> > cant help but feeling somethings wrong...
> > Tom te tom te tom

> By 'web address' I assume they mean domain or website?  That's clever -
> what about the millions whose only webspace is with their ISP?  They
> don't own it, and if they're proposing that ISPs share customer details
> with them then the DPA will jump all over that at light speed.  No way
> I'd be happy with my ISP sharing my details with a third
> party,especially one Microsoft has a hand in.

No. You can run your own authentication server, if you like. Or, you can
sign up for an OpenID service, e.g. MyOpenID.com, and get a URL from
them. Then, if you already have a URL associated with you, you can set
that up to forward to the authentication server URL.

My MyOpenID URL is http://bma.myopenid.com/ but whenever I need to
authenticate I use http://bmalee.eu/~bma/ - in the headers of that page
are a couple of META tags that point anything looking for authentication
towards the MyOpenID server.

The ISP has nothing to do with it, unless they run their own auth
server.

        bma

Gosh, this worries me. Does it mean that ubuntu isn't protected against all those nasties out there that will descend on us once M$ bites the dust ? Or before ? Robin

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