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Re: Give Us Liberty or Give Us .NET

On December 8th, 2001 tseng_mike (not verified) says:

Thats based on the assumption that

  1. There is a browser
  2. The browser support this
  3. That's your computer the browser is running on

Passport and Liberty isn't just about ecommerce, its about our identity as a whole. Passport and Liberty also allow us to use single sign-on on 'any' device that are connected to the internet since all the processing is on the server side. Also think when you are travelling, you can still maintain that single sign-on in internet cafes where you wont trust to store your password/details in.

Also If you can find that freeware program that would forge a digital certificate, then the whole ecommerce on the web would break down. Not just passport, or liberty alliance.

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