What does anyone know about .net

[crystalized]

Hello all,

Just wondering what people know about .net and the web services. Have people used it, what do you think about it if you have. Do you know of references or where to get more information about it? Do you know of anyone who is really developing using it?

Well hope to hear some opinions and some information on this topic.

Crystal
crystalized_s@yahoo.com

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Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

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[LittleWing]

visual studio .NET is still beta release....so only the MS folks are using it. if you want info, go to their website

 

[ackka]

I have been doing some Microsoft Passport stuff lately for work. It basically is a microsoft centralized internet. Microsoft will provide servers that will store your information,data, securely, for a price. Microsoft Passport is a universal authentication system. Basically anyone in the world can have a Passport userid. You store all your info, Credit Card numbers, adddress, etc.. on MS servers. Then when you go to a website like

http://www.ebay.com

you don't have to enter all your information for that individual site, the site contacts MS, and asks for a certain amount of info. The service is free, for now, but you will have to pay for it in the future. There is also a initiative called Hailstorm, a way to link PDA's Cell Phone's into this .NET system.

The major problem with this is the fact it is centralizing very secure data. Now most companies go about their own levels of security and maybe a few get broken into. This will put all, very sensitive data, in one location. This can become the Holy Grail of hackers, Imagine having access to millions of peoples personal information around the world. Also judging from Microsofts recent security vulnerabilties, and the fact that the servers that store this data are most likely IIS running on NT or 2000. IIS servers account for over 50% of breakins, major vulnerabilites come out daily. This type of centralized security is a very bad approach.

This is just another example of how M$ is trying to further its software control, into the Internet which has been fairly free of control lately.

ackka
ackka@mad.scientist.com

http://home.cyberarmy.com/ackka/

 

[LittleWing]

shouldn't really use the words microsoft and securely in the same sentence!!

 

[gunthnp]

.Net is soley an attack on Open Source if you remember the halloween papers this is exactly what MS said they would do make a "stardard" only microsoft can use.

http://www.opensource.org/halloween/halloween1.html

remember!!! So long and thanks for all the fish.