Stardate 20011120.2246 (On Screen and On Sensors): Now let me get this straight: Microsoft wants me to give them my credit card number and all relevant validation information, and it wants to hold all my passwords for accessing every other secure site on the web. Sun wants the same thing. Both of them would hold the keys to all the money I keep in my checking account (quite a lot, as it happens). But given that companies out there are botching up that kind of thing all the time and having huge amounts of it get stolen, why would I want to do something so blatantly stupid? Cancelling my credit card and getting a new one would be a royal hassle, because all my monthly bills are paid automatically using it. I have a better plan: I think I won't use Passport or the superduper Liberty Initiative (or whatever the heck it was that Sun called their equivalent) at all. How's that sound?
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