Windows Vista®: Home Entertainment with Windows® Media Center and Xbox 360™
by S. E. Slack, Greg Slack
Use Windows CardSpace
As you use the Internet, you’ve probably discovered that more and more sites require passwords and user IDs, which means you have to track all those accounts and passwords. After a while, you can get "password fatigue" and get a bit lazy by reusing the same account names, passwords, and IDs at multiple locations. That’s not smart from a security perspective.
To help you combat this fatigue, Windows Vista offers Windows CardSpace. It helps you create relationships with Web sites and online services by storing your digital identity in a portfolio of identities called information cards. You then use those cards on different Web sites. The information on each card is called claims; the information can be your age, your address, ...
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