Comments on: Verisign convinces Yahoo and eBay to trust them - not Microsoft or Liberty Alliance http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2006/02/verisign-convinces-yahoo-and-ebay-to-trust-them-not-microsoft-or-liberty-alliance Digital Lifestyle Aggregation - helping to establish open source infrastructure Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:52:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Marc’s Voice » Blog Archive » Identity Hub strategy by Broadband Mechanics http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2006/02/verisign-convinces-yahoo-and-ebay-to-trust-them-not-microsoft-or-liberty-alliance#comment-30978 Marc’s Voice » Blog Archive » Identity Hub strategy by Broadband Mechanics Wed, 15 Feb 2006 22:02:53 +0000 http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2006/02/verisign-convinces-yahoo-and-ebay-to-trust-them-not-microsoft-or-liberty-alliance#comment-30978 [...] In honor of Microsoft officialy announcing Infocards and Verisign announcing VIP -  I think it’s time to be official about what we’re doing. Some see what Microsoft is doing as Hailstorm 2.0 (in a bad way) while I have a different point of view than that. [...] […] In honor of Microsoft officialy announcing Infocards and Verisign announcing VIP -  I think it’s time to be official about what we’re doing. Some see what Microsoft is doing as Hailstorm 2.0 (in a bad way) while I have a different point of view than that. […]

]]> By: Aldo Castañeda http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2006/02/verisign-convinces-yahoo-and-ebay-to-trust-them-not-microsoft-or-liberty-alliance#comment-30958 Aldo Castañeda Tue, 14 Feb 2006 18:59:20 +0000 http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2006/02/verisign-convinces-yahoo-and-ebay-to-trust-them-not-microsoft-or-liberty-alliance#comment-30958 Marc, Are you reading too much into this press release? I think the key quote from the report is: "VeriSign Identity Protection will provide a new means to protect consumer identities, combining multi-factor authentication, a shared network of information and intelligence and actionable fraud monitoring. With our partners, the VIP service will provide end-users with easy-to-purchase and easy-to-deploy multi-factor authentication," said Judy Lin, executive vice president of VeriSign Security Services. This seems more like an "integrated" payment scheme via Paypal than a system that "enables humans to control the movement of our data between systems and allows us to CONTROL our data." In other words, I doubt eBay's preparing to allow its users to export their reputations to Yahoo. I hope I'm wrong and you're right! -Aldo Marc,

Are you reading too much into this press release?

I think the key quote from the report is:

“VeriSign Identity Protection will provide a new means to protect consumer identities, combining multi-factor authentication, a shared network of information and intelligence and actionable fraud monitoring. With our partners, the VIP service will provide end-users with easy-to-purchase and easy-to-deploy multi-factor authentication,” said Judy Lin, executive vice president of VeriSign Security Services.

This seems more like an “integrated” payment scheme via Paypal than a system that “enables humans to control the movement of our data between systems and allows us to CONTROL our data.” In other words, I doubt eBay’s preparing to allow its users to export their reputations to Yahoo.

I hope I’m wrong and you’re right!

-Aldo

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