> Really, the Internet becomes the dongle. My concern with > internet based authentication isn't that I'm being > authenticated, but rather that I don't know what > information is being sent over the wire. That's exactly the problem. I don't know many people being willing to give an application full access to the internet to call it's mama. There could be any kind of information (and not only pure application data) being transfered and for me, as a user, this is really nothing I would like. Why else do I install personal firewalls ? I don't think a program uses this technique finds many friends, at least not here in Europe where there a many security concerns about the internet. Regards, Tom

This in an interesting thread. I read DDJ for a couple of years now and find it still intersting as sort of "looking over the fence". Just to get an idea and keep informed of other areas. For myself as "Windows-minded" (or better "Windows-forced") developer I read a lot of online resources for my daily work because I find them much more actual and more dynamic then printed medias. They have the chance to go more in the depth with their forums. When trying to get an idea of other areas this depth on the other side is an absolute showkiller. Tom

There is already an IE like browser using the latest mozilla milestone out: http://www.kmeleon.org Currently it is version 0.1 and comes with complete source code (MFC)