>Will it include the recent passport debacle which allowed users to access credit cards and passwords on passport servers with nothing more difficult than a malformed URL?

More non sequitur?

>( Keep the faith, Mike, Rev Bill won't let you down (until your pockets are empty ;-)! Your shot!

Its not faith. If it were, I'd probably have all my personal info in a passport account, but guess what, I don't.

However, I do see value in using passport. First of all, only way one to login to your sites, only one user and pass to remember. Nice, considering, most users want their computer to be easy to use (keep in mind, "most users" <> "Linux Gurus", HTH). Also, with Windows XP, log in to the computer and you've logged into your passport. As a user, I'd also rather have game develoeprs spend time developing games, not reinventing authentification again.

Nice attack against my "faith" though. Glad to see you understand why it should be avioded.