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25% increase in authentication

[Dave Birch] Surely we must be getting closer to mass market two, three and perhaps even four factor authentication?

Christian Lunden, Nordic Choice Hotels

[Dave Birch] Announcing a new podcast in the Consult Hyperion Tomorrow's Transactions series: Christian Lunden of Nordic Choice Hotels.

Mexican standoff

[Dave Birch] While strict identity requirements may superficially aid the forces of law and order, they may also help criminals.

Who thinks pseudonymity isn’t important?

[Dave Birch] Some forms of business are demanding identifiers, but identifiers going forward aren't the same as they were in the past.

Professor Michael Birnhack, Institute for Advanced Legal Studies

[Dave Birch] Announcing a new podcast in the Consult Hyperion Tomorrow's Transactions series: Professor Michael Birnhack of Tel Aviv University.

Tough choices

[Dave Birch] Taking away privacy doesn't increase security, it reduces it.

Two-faced, at the least

[Dave Birch] What do we really think about privacy? What should the identity infrastructure deliver when most people do not know what they want from it?

It all comes back to liability

[Dave Birch] Is it possible to develop eID infrastructure without liability?

The sorry state of id and authentication

[Dave Birch] Trying to do 21st century e-business without an identity infrastructure is frustrating, time-consuming and expensive.

Not magic bullets, but bullets nonetheless

[Dave Birch] Biometrics aren't a magic bullet, but they could be a good solution to the right problem.

How smart?

[Dave Birch] We need to be just as rigorous in thinking about the future of machine identity as about the future of personal identity.

Theoretically private

[Dave Birch] If we understood more about what privacy is, then it would be easier to implement systems that had it as a characteristic.