In theory.
There??™s a small implementation detail that ruins this otherwise
perfect metaphor. Although ???I give proof that it??™s really me??? is a
practice that enjoyed a fair degree of success in the of?¬‚ine
world, the digital equivalent of user identi?¬?cation is proving to
be surprisingly brittle. There are many reasons for this situation,
but for the time being we can approximate them in a single
statement: We are applying to this new class of resources principles
and techniques that successfully protected assets in the
less-connected eras. This simple fact is at the very core of the
attention that identity management is receiving, and ultimately
the very raison d??™??tre of Windows CardSpace and the book you
are reading.
With all this wealth circulating on the Internet, the crime opportunities
we have described in the previous sections seem like
child??™s play. Just compare the hassle of a supply chain, required
for pro?¬?table old-school software piracy, with the easy money
you get by being in the business of compromising credit cards.
You can literally get rich with it; and where there are opportunities,
there are entrepreneurs. The motivations that drive cybercrime
today are deeply different from the exploratory narcissism
of the early virus writers and script kiddies.
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