Chapter 7. AppFabric: Access Control Service

What is your digital identity? I personally have at least 15 different identities, and it's tedious as well as insecure to maintain usernames and passwords for every application. You can categorize such identities as critical, important, and less important based on the impact they may have not only on your digital life but also on your real life if you lose them. The critical ones are enterprise identities you may have with your company or partner companies (such as an Active Directory account) and financial identities with financial service providers like the firm that manages your 401K or IRA, online banks, and so on. The important ones are personal e-mail identities like Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, and ...

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