The joy of single sign-on

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13 pointskennjason5 comments

Err, this is a joke, right ?

I mean, this guy raises concerns about an hypothetical Facebook/Google Megacorp controlling everything, and surrendering all your everyday computing to Microsoft is supposed to be the solution ?

I'd be scared to know my entire life relied on Live.com being up. (same thing for Google or Facebook, or Apple, or whatever non-local provider).

There's a big difference between Facebook and Google running/operating everything, and Microsoft offering a single sign-on service.

Such as?

Single sign on (or SSO) is hard. The problem is not just fro a technological standpoint but from a social one. Most people don't really want SSO.

Lots of people want to create different social profiles for different instances.

Then there is the question of trust. Microsoft is going to be holding the keys to all your services. Do you really want that?

Hrm... who else would you trust with your login credentials? (Who would've thought that Sony kept passwords in plain text...?)

There's no reason you can't have multiple profiles with a single sign-on. But yes, SSO does always tie those profiles back to one account.

This is a complicated issue worth discussing though, for sure :)

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