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"Arthur T Knackerbracket" has found the following story:

Microsoft's wanted a really good federated identity scheme ever since the early 2000s, when it gave the world Project Hailstorm, aka ".Net My Services", to let a web of online services know a little about you and the information you are happy to share with others.

Hailstorm passed, swept back years later as Geneva Server and now seems to have found its way into a blockchain-powered conceptual heir that Microsoft's now named "Decentralized Digital Identities".

Alex Simons, director of program management in Microsoft's Identity Division has revealed that "Over the last 12 months we've invested in incubating a set of ideas for using Blockchain (and other distributed ledger technologies) to create new types of digital identities, identities designed from the ground up to enhance personal privacy, security and control."

Microsoft's identity ambitions, he wrote, now centre on user-controlled-and-owned Decentralized ID schemes so that a single data breach can't give crooks the keys to your kingdom.

Original Submission

1. "following story" - https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/02/14/microsoft_blockchain/
2. "Project Hailstorm" - https://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/09/21/why_microsofts_open_hailstorm_promises/
3. "Geneva Server" - https://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/30/microsoft_generva_hailstorm/
4. ""Decentralized Digital Identities"" - https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/enterprisemobility/2018/02/12/decentralized-digital-identities-and-blockchain-the-future-as-we-see-it/
5. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=24851

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