GamingAssassin Posted December 17, 2011 Report Share Posted December 17, 2011 The latest piece details Microsoft's idea how to better protect your PC with passwords stored in the cloud as well as an infrastructure that will not lock you out when you either forget your password or someone else takes over your PC. The solution is an approach with a password-manager-style credential manager which will enable users to store passwords for Windows in a similar way browsers do today. Just like IE10 will store account names and passwords for visited websites, Metro apps can use a direct API to store and retrieve credentials for that app. Windows 8 itself will support a sign-on via a Windows Live ID, which stores passwords in the cloud and synchronizes those passwords in an environment that is defined as "Trusted PCs" by the user. While there may always be questions over the security of "the cloud," Microsoft said that Windows Live ID passwords can make your password management much more convenient. For example, if you forget your local password you may be out of luck and will have to start from scratch (or use a password cracking tool). The cloud approach, however, allows a user to reset a password from another PC. If your password has been stolen, you can recover your account access via secondary authentication data, such as a mobile phone number. Also, Microsoft said, users will be able to sign in to their Windows, as the software caches the your last “known good” sign-in password. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spindoctor Posted December 17, 2011 Report Share Posted December 17, 2011 oh sure, save passwords in a cloud operated by microsoft. what could possibly go wrong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Choron ka raja Posted December 17, 2011 Report Share Posted December 17, 2011 they have credential manager in windows 7 too. although, no one uses it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blueelvis_RoXXX Posted December 18, 2011 Report Share Posted December 18, 2011 what if the CLOUD gets hacked? microsoft will be doomed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sackboy Posted December 18, 2011 Report Share Posted December 18, 2011 what if the CLOUD gets hacked? microsoft will be doomed. Not really ? You will be still secure as your PC needs the password physically not online .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteWolf Posted December 18, 2011 Report Share Posted December 18, 2011 oh sure, save passwords in a cloud operated by microsoft. what could possibly go wrong :rofl: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TropicalRajput Posted December 18, 2011 Report Share Posted December 18, 2011 oh sure, save passwords in a cloud operated by microsoft. what could possibly go wrong nothing actually. hotmail is a cloud based service. so is gmail. so is sony psn and many others. if you set your password to 'password' then don't blame the company. this is how people's email accounts get hacked most of the time when they set their password to something silly or their answer questions to be too obvious they have credential manager in windows 7 too. although, no one uses it. I do and many others do that have multiple machines in their house and don't want to keep on enterring the user credentials to access the other machine's share all the time. windows credentials in windows 7 is totally different to what windows 8 will offer. windows 7 is local. windows 8 will offer an service like lastpass or 1password using your windows live id's credentials as your master password. I have been using lastpass for couple of years along with millions of other users. it's the same concept and last I read was that lastpass has had no major security breach which resulted in the user's master passwords stolen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bird Bird Bird Posted December 18, 2011 Report Share Posted December 18, 2011 ^^ Why are you reasoning in a MS related thread ? Don't you know it's uber cool to bash and insult the same company whose pirated OSs you've been using since childhood ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spindoctor Posted December 18, 2011 Report Share Posted December 18, 2011 nothing actually. hotmail is a cloud based service. so is gmail. so is sony psn and many others. if you set your password to 'password' then don't blame the company. this is how people's email accounts get hacked most of the time when they set their password to something silly or their answer questions to be too obvious you know, i was going to agree with you. then you mentioned sony psn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bird Bird Bird Posted December 18, 2011 Report Share Posted December 18, 2011 Sometimes I wonder Spin & Zodka are the same person with split personalities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spindoctor Posted December 18, 2011 Report Share Posted December 18, 2011 Sometimes I wonder Spin & Zodka are the same person with split personalities. wasn't even trolling sony there. that was purely unintentional. the point i was making is that you cannot allude to cloud based information security and then go on to use the psn network as an example Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devil_angel Posted December 19, 2011 Report Share Posted December 19, 2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeehunter Posted December 19, 2011 Report Share Posted December 19, 2011 PSN as an example . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bird Bird Bird Posted December 19, 2011 Report Share Posted December 19, 2011 wasn't even trolling sony there. that was purely unintentional. the point i was making is that you cannot allude to cloud based information security and then go on to use the psn network as an example I agree with the bolded part, but I don't agree with the italicized one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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