EBay Cancels Its Passport

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eBay Retires MS Passport Sign-In

eBay Retires MS Passport Sign-In 12/29/2004 08:09 PM

eBay To Stop .Net Passport Sign-In

eBay To Stop .Net Passport Sign-In 12/29/2004 10:08 PM
Online auction site eBay will stop allowing users to sign in via their .Net Passport. In an announcement made earlier today, eBay stated that towards the end of January, users would only be able to sign-in to eBay via a direct login on the site. eBay's decision to stop using passport sign-ins means that they will also be dropping use of .Net alerts on the site. .Net alerts, similar to those offered by Neowin (via Messagecast), gave eBay users information on the status of on-going auctions.

eBay will begin offering Wireless alerts to replace .Net alerts, giving users information direct to their device on auctions they have bid on (for free). eBay will also start to promote their toolbar for Internet Explorer (here) which gives similar information on an auctions status.

Microsoft stated earlier in the year that they would discontinue development on .Net passports; the program, although launched with good intentions, was dogged with privacy concerns and faced a lack of demand for the system from online websites. With eBay's decision, Passport will pursue a lonely future on Microsoft sites and products (Hotmail, MSN Messenger) only. Passport faced competition from the Liberty Alliance group who attempted to offer an alternative to Microsoft's product.

Also dropped recently was the Microsoft Directory of Passport enabled sites; one might be lead to believe that the list became so slim it was an embarrassment to the company to keep it online. That said, it's also not hard to believe that there isn't still room for an open, universal sign-on mechanism that is easy and cheap for websites to deploy and offer to their users. Perhaps the Liberty Alliance will succeed where Microsoft failed.

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eBay drops Microsoft Passport

eBay drops Microsoft Passport 12/30/2004 04:55 PM
p2pnet.net Dec 30 2004 7:14PM GMT

eBay Nixing Microsoft's Passport

eBay Nixing Microsoft's Passport 12/30/2004 07:54 PM
asia.internet.com Dec 30 2004 10:23PM GMT

eBay to Drop Passport, .NET Support

eBay to Drop Passport, .NET Support 12/29/2004 08:10 PM
Auction site eBay announced to members on its Web site Wednesday afternoon that it will drop support for Microsoft's Passport and .NET Alerts by late January. Users were told that "once this takes place, the Microsoft Passport button that is currently displayed on Sign In pages will be replaced with links to a page with more information."

EBay Loses Microsoft's Passport

EBay Loses Microsoft's Passport 12/30/2004 07:54 PM
Smart Money Dec 30 2004 10:15PM GMT

eBay to drop Microsoft's Passport

eBay to drop Microsoft's Passport 12/30/2004 11:42 PM
TechSpot Dec 31 2004 3:23AM GMT

eBay divorces from Microsoft's Passport

eBay divorces from Microsoft's Passport 12/31/2004 02:04 AM
Xinhua News Agency Dec 31 2004 6:17AM GMT

eBay dumps Microsoft Passport

eBay dumps Microsoft Passport 12/31/2004 02:04 AM
PC Authority Dec 31 2004 5:04AM GMT

eBay has dropped Microsoft's Passport

eBay has dropped Microsoft's Passport 12/31/2004 02:04 AM
Reuters Dec 31 2004 5:00AM GMT

eBay revokes Microsoft Passport

eBay revokes Microsoft Passport 01/04/2005 12:49 PM
eBay has withdrawn support for Microsoft's Passport authentication service. Once touted as a single, Internet-wide authentication service, Passport will now only be used on the sites of Microsoft and its close partners.

Other News: eBay drops Passport

Other News: eBay drops Passport 12/31/2004 05:03 AM
Online auction giant eBay has dropped Microsoft's Passport and will no longer support logins through Passport or .Net.

Microsoft Passport Dumped By Ebay

Microsoft Passport Dumped By Ebay 12/31/2004 06:44 PM
Search Engine Journal Dec 31 2004 8:50PM GMT

eBay drops Microsoft's Passport

eBay drops Microsoft's Passport 01/03/2005 09:41 PM
InfoWorld Jan 4 2005 12:51AM GMT

eBay Drops Microsoft Passport Sign-In

eBay Drops Microsoft Passport Sign-In 12/30/2004 11:16 AM
Auction site eBay announced to members on its Web site Wednesday afternoon that it will drop support for Microsoft's Passport and .NET Alerts by late January. Users were told that "once this takes place, the Microsoft Passport button that is currently displayed on Sign In pages will be replaced with links to a page with more information." The announcement came with practically no warning; however, in recent months, it had become much more difficult to sign up for alerts through Microsoft's .NET services as the pages to do so were buried on eBay's site.

eBay brings down the hammer on Microsoft
Passport

eBay brings down the hammer on Microsoft
Passport 12/30/2004 02:08 PM
Microsoft Passport is no longer welcome at eBay, as the single sign-in service continues to lose partners.

EBay Latest to Drop Microsoft's Passport

EBay Latest to Drop Microsoft's Passport 12/30/2004 04:55 PM
AP via ABCNEWS.com Dec 30 2004 8:21PM GMT

EBay to drop support for Microsoft's
Passport

EBay to drop support for Microsoft's
Passport 12/30/2004 07:54 PM
Reuters UK Dec 30 2004 10:21PM GMT

EBay Latest to Drop Microsoft's Passport
(AP)

EBay Latest to Drop Microsoft's Passport
(AP) 12/30/2004 10:01 PM
AP - EBay Inc. became the latest Web site to say it will stop using Microsoft Corp.'s Passport user authentication system, as Microsoft continues to scale back the service.

EBay to Drop Support for Microsoft's
Passport (Reuters)

EBay to Drop Support for Microsoft's
Passport (Reuters) 12/30/2004 04:33 PM
Reuters - Microsoft Corp. said on Thursday that eBay Inc. will soon drop support for its Passport service, originally intended to make the world's biggest software maker the gatekeeper of Web identities.

eBay drops Microsoft Passport Sign In
and .NET Alerts

eBay drops Microsoft Passport Sign In
and .NET Alerts 12/30/2004 12:04 PM
eBay announced on Wednesday that it will drop support for Microsoft's Passport and .NET Alerts. Members currently using the service will have to sign in directly through eBay sometime in January. "Once this takes place, the Microsoft Passport button that is currently displayed on Sign In pages will be replaced with links to a page with more information," eBay said in a statement. "As part of this change, we will also discontinue sending eBay Notifications through Microsoft .Net alerts."

Shopping website eBay shows Microsoft
Passport the door

Shopping website eBay shows Microsoft
Passport the door 01/03/2005 07:31 AM
Cape Argus Jan 3 2005 11:47AM GMT

Review: Advances make car-sharing easy
EBay latest to drop Microsoft's Passport
Phishing, spyware, o

Review: Advances make car-sharing easy
EBay latest to drop Microsoft's Passport
Phishing, spyware, o 01/02/2005 02:43 AM
Seattletimes.nwsource.com - Sat Jan 1, 12:25 pm GMT

RE: eBay Account Phishing with eBay
Redirect - Ebay fixed this + related XSS
hole

RE: eBay Account Phishing with eBay
Redirect - Ebay fixed this + related XSS
hole 03/31/2005 07:14 PM
Rager, Anton (Anton) (Mar 31 2005)

As Was to Offer "Makeover Package" for
eBay Sellers at 2004 eBay Live -
Community Conference

As Was to Offer "Makeover Package" for
eBay Sellers at 2004 eBay Live -
Community Conference 06/14/2004 02:05 AM
Package of consulting services can start, market, and improve eBay businesses [PRWEB Jun 14, 2004]

Move Over eBay: MyXstuff.com is a Free
eBay Alternative.

Move Over eBay: MyXstuff.com is a Free
eBay Alternative. 06/20/2004 03:39 AM
MyXstuff.com is a place to display items for trade or give away. MyXstuff.com provides a radical new way for networking by allowing knowledge as trade collateral. The trade transaction/method and trade collateral is up to the members or visitors and correspondence is tracked in the user space as the trade offers. MyXstuff.com is in Beta phase and ready for public release. It is a woman owned website based in Boulder, CO. [PRWEB Jun 20, 2004]

Passport to pry

Passport to pry 04/07/2005 09:51 AM
Civil libertarians are up in arms over government plans to embed new I.D. chips in visas and passports. And isn't it convenient that Tom Ridge is now the I.D. technology's biggest salesman?

EU/US passport technology war

EU/US passport technology war 04/05/2005 12:11 PM
Computer Weekly Apr 5 2005 3:15PM GMT

A Passport to America

A Passport to America 09/22/2004 09:14 PM
smart thinking about approaching the rest of america. SFers seem unaware of these issues.

Gemplus and NEC win e-Passport bid

Gemplus and NEC win e-Passport bid 04/07/2005 10:12 AM
Computer Business Review Apr 7 2005 2:05PM GMT

Passport gets another pass

Passport gets another pass 12/31/2004 12:32 PM
globetechnology.com Dec 31 2004 4:54PM GMT

Is Passport Becoming Passe?

Is Passport Becoming Passe? 12/31/2004 05:00 PM
Microsoft has been slowly but surely deemphasizing its Passport digital-identity service for more than a year. But Passport increasingly is being pigeon-holed as a service for Microsoft properties only.

Passport makeover

Passport makeover 04/05/2005 05:22 PM
USA Today Apr 5 2005 9:47PM GMT

Look like your passport photo

Look like your passport photo 02/16/2004 09:22 PM
USA Today Feb 17 2004 1:12AM GMT

U.S. passport privacy: Over and out?

U.S. passport privacy: Over and out? 12/25/2004 05:00 PM
finally gains government approval

iht.com/articles/2004/12/22/news/passport.html
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My tattered passport

My tattered passport 12/24/2004 12:47 PM

I stupidly got a 10 year passport (instead of a 5 year) which is now approaching the final year in its life. It has become reasonably tattered. In particular, there is a corner of the passport cover just where the row of OCR characters starts. This corner is also the closest to my picture. It started as a minor peel. However, several immigration officers have picked at it trying to see if it was a fake (making it worse). Each time a brutal agent swipes it through the OCR scanner, it gets a little worse. I figure a little bit of glue would help protect this corner of my passport, but I wonder if putting glue on my passport to mend a tattered corner is some sort of crime... I googled around and couldn't find anything. All I found was an article about a Chinese woman who was thrown in jail for trying to enter the US with a tattered passport. Yikes!

The Oregonian

In their latest outrage, they jailed a Chinese businesswoman, whose misfortune -- and only crime -- was to arrive at the Portland International Airport with a tattered passport.

Portland immigration inspectors deemed Guo Liming's passport "suspicious." They forced her to strip to her underwear, searched her, interrogated her, handcuffed her for transport to The Dalles and jailed her for two nights -- before concluding [how inconvenient for them] that her passport was valid.

The problem is, getting a replacement passport in Japan requires giving up the one you have for a period longer than I am able to be in Japan for awhile.

Does anyone know anything about whether it would be dumb to try to put glue on my passport and if not, what sort of glue I should use? Basically, the corner is peeling into 3 layers. The cover, the paper and the lamination inside...

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No-go zone for Passport

No-go zone for Passport 12/30/2004 07:32 PM
eBay's decision to stop supporting Microsoft's online ID system comes as companies get behind rival federated standards.

Passport gets stopped at the border

Passport gets stopped at the border 12/31/2004 02:17 PM
ZDNet Dec 31 2004 6:12PM GMT

Microsoft Loses Passport

Microsoft Loses Passport 12/31/2004 12:08 PM

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