OzHub, the Macquarie Telecom-led cloud computing alliance, has come down firmly on the side of Optus over the copyright controversy surrounding Optus TV Now, warning that any moves to change the law "risk branding Australia a global luddite state."
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and successor chief research and strategy officer Craig Mundie have outlined the company's plans to support emerging open source online identity management standard OpenID and integrate with its own Windows-based CardSpace authentication system.
The OpenID system enables users to identify
themselves on the Internet with a URL as their username while storing
their credentials at an OpenID provider, such as Verisign, LiveJournal,
OpenID among others.
When logging into an OpenID enabled website, users enters their URL and
are directed to their OpenID provider, verify their identity, and are
sent back to the site they wish to access with login details for the
session. The system is being touted as a way to thwart phishers,
although detractors claim that it could lend itself to exploitation and
have exactly the opposite effect.
Speaking in tandem at the RSA Security conference in San Francisco,
Gates and Mundie claimed that the marriage of Microsoft's CardSpace and
OpenID is a giant step forward and would thwart phishing attacks that
use fake websites to steal sensitive information from Internet users.
The appearance of both Gates and Mundie on the stage together was
widely seen as a symbolic gesture by Gates to pass the mantle of
leadership of the Microsoft's technology strategy to Mundie, who takes
the helm in 2008.
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