AOL SNS Compared To Passport 12
stuccoguy writes "AOL has their own universal profiler and logon service called Screen Name Service. It looks an awful lot like MS Passport and raises a lot of the same privacy concerns. AOL makes the same weak assurances about not sharing profile information without permission and does not require participating sites to have any specific privacy policy. I don't know how long this service has been around, but I thought it odd that so much attention has been given to the flaws in passport and I have not heard anything about what looks like an identical service by AOL."
what about... (Score:1)
This isn't even news (Score:1, Informative)
Speaking off Passport-like software... (Score:2, Informative)
I installed it on XP RC2 (so I don't know if it's a global thing, or specific because I was running XP) and it made me sign up for a Netscape.net account before I could use the software. Maybe there was a way to circumvent it, but I was too in-shock at the time think about it.
It's the same exact thing as Passport, just Netscape instead of Microsoft.
Re:Speaking off Passport-like software... (Score:2)
Only it's not "just" Netscape, it's actually AOL. Even if it's not integrated, I'd be very surprised if the next major rev of Netscape, assuming there is one outside of an AOL client, doesn't force you to sign up for AOL's SNS.
Well, it could include... (Score:2)
just use mozilla instead (Score:1)
I cant think of one (Score:1)
Re:I cant think of one (Score:1)
Pardon me, I should say those are all AOL-Time-Warner properties. Microsoft is still only dreaming of owning that much brandspace.
Yes they should-- (Score:1)