Liberty Alliance and Microsoft

The Liberty Alliance Project was set up to counter Microsoft’s Passport technology that threatened to put Microsoft at the centre of secure commerce and identiy technology for the net. Now that Passport is being declared dead (see InformationWeek), perhaps the alliance of equally commercial firms can get off the high horse of “liberty” and call themselves something less pretencious. Just how would technology for building identity for web transactions contribute to liberty?

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