On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 09:13:29AM -0600, Gerry Creager N5JXS wrote: > > While your question about personal certificates is germain, the fact > remains that a lot of sites still require registration. Yes. > And the comment regarding Passport looking better and better is not, at > least to me, accurate. I meant looking better and better to the average joe, not me. There is no way I am putting all of that information in MS's hands (and on an IIS server) for any skript kiddie to get a hold of. > I've got a lot of accounts, and unique > passwords, to juggle, but registering them with an 'authority' like > Microsoft... or O'Reilly... or the US Government strikes me as a direct > request for personal information to be abused. Right. I understand this, and so do you, but how many average joe consumers fully think that through. > If that's the only way > you can manage the various accounts and passwords you need to maintain, > so be it. But please don't try to convince me I should support you > because you're having problems associated with trying to maintain too > many accounts. Hello? I think you need to go re-read my message. I am not advocating Passport. > Somehow, I didn't get that impression from your comments. I didn't criticize his posting to the list did I? I don't think I did. What I did criticize what his need for a registration. > All of us are, more than likely, busy, and somewhat overloaded. Did > this diatribe really have to continue? I didn't think so. Obviously you did. I was ready to drop it two messages ago. Comments to /dev/null please. This thread has outlasted my interest in it. b. -- Brian J. Murrell
