Re: [DotGNU]Login provider slamming.

[Barry Fitzgerald]

Feel free to explain how proprietizing our platform specs would keep
this from happening - as you stated in one of your last messages.  If
there is collusion between Microsoft and Website X concerning the data
that Website X is trusted with, how are we going to be responsible for
that?

        -Barry


Ron Burk wrote:
> 
> >
> >all though that is a scarry thought, I would think
> >that an action of that sort would be conidered
> >steeling and the information was moved wothout the
> >person's knowledge. M$ is not that stupid.
> 
> In what sense is it stealing? The customer freely elected
> to give their data to web site X. Web site X freely elected
> to run a version of Passport that supports the dotGNU
> standard. Virtually no web sites provide any guarantee about
> where or how they'll store the data you give them, so
> the fact that the data is stored on a centralized Microsoft
> server rather than the machine belonging to web site X
> violates no understanding (many web sites already rely
> on third-party companies to handle things like credit
> card acceptance and storage).
>