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covers the feasibility of the operation from the technical standpoint
but says nothing about the way in which what is happening
surfaces to the user??™s attention. Let??™s say that you are
working for an important technology company that has a close
partnership with a hardware provider. By virtue of that partnership,
purchasers at the hardware vendor site enjoy automatic
deals applied speci?¬?cally for your company. The experience is
seamless. While you are browsing your corporate intranet, you
click a link to the hardware vendor, and the web store automatically
recognizes you as an employee of a partner company; you
get a welcome banner with your name, and the deals on the
Today the user is
often not in control.
The consequences
are serious
Even single sign-on
systems may hide
violations of the
user in control
principle
96 Hints Toward a Solution
page are adjusted accordingly. That??™s the magic of single sign-on
(SSO; see the section ???SAML??? in Chapter 1). Sometimes the transition
may be so seamless (thanks to layout customizations) that
you might not even realize that you are now in a different place
and that an authentication step has been performed at all.
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