Poor Microsoft. After the
recent
collapse in Passport security the Gartner Group is
recommending that all Passport partners
leave the program or else
provide an "additional, more secure form of authentication". The FTC is on
Microsoft's case, too.
Part of the problem with the most recent flaw is that it had been there for months and Microsoft has no way of telling how many accounts were compromised. Nice. Centralized authority is dangerous. |