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To: stockman_scott who wrote (70055)	12/30/2004 2:30:45 PM
From: TigerPaw	Respond to of 89467

One giant is crumbling under it's own weight. As of late January, eBay will no longer display the Passport button on sign-in pages nor allow users to log in using their Passport accounts. techweb.com Microsoft has decided to stop marketing its sign-on service to other Web sites, the Los Angeles Times confirmed Thursday. The pull-back, which had been long predicted by various analysts, follows a stormy life for Passport, which among other things, suffered a pair of security breakdowns in the summer of 2003 that could have led to hackers stealing users' IDs. Microsoft also pulled its online directory of sites using Passport -- perhaps because the list would have been depressingly short -- TP