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Microsoft Working to Scale Blockchain for Grand Distributed ID Scheme

posted by Fnord666 on Thursday February 15 2018, @08:54AM   Printer-friendly
from the who-did-you-say-you-are? dept.

"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.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Thursday February 15 2018, @04:04PM (1 child)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Thursday February 15 2018, @04:04PM (#638270) Homepage Journal

    All of the information that I am "happy to share" already exists on the internet. No, you can't have my home address, you can't have my real name, you can't have my driver's license number, you can't have any of the zillions of bits of information that will satisfy your curiosity about my identity. Stop being such wankers, you master wankers yankers!

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  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday February 16 2018, @03:15AM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Friday February 16 2018, @03:15AM (#638624) Homepage Journal

    -r:

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    I hope to inspire others to post theirs own ssns in hopes of destroying its usefulness as a database key

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