Google Plus: Minus 1
Google Plus started out so well! It was pleasant, easy, and there was a lovely gratification in adding people to circles and being added in return. It felt like finally, perhaps somebody at Google had figured out how to be social! People were sharing, and communicating, and suddenly it seemed like maybe there might be...
Phisher Du Jour
I received this phishing attempt a while ago – it made me smile, given that to me, the text is an obvious non sequitur. I thought the assurance at the bottom was an especially nice touch… the reply-to was constructed to look like it came from an IT guy too. The only thing that isn’t...
Why Identity Management Matters
A few weeks ago, a convicted sex offender abducted a 10 year old girl from a shopping mall in my hometown (link). The attacker posed as a police officer, but when the girl asked too many questions, she was simply picked up and carried to a van, which then sped away from the mall. Even as...
Audio Visual Nirvana
I admit it – I’m currently obsessed by two things: sound and style. In sailing, rule #1 is: look good. It turns out that you have to be able to sail well to obey that rule. I’ve decided that the same rule should apply to my audio visual life at home. In my mind, this...
What a Team
In case you hadn’t heard, Ping Identity just hired Travis Spencer to work with Paul Madsen, Patrick Harding and myself in the Office of the CTO.
Score!!!
We’ll all be meeting up in January for our first in-person strategy session, and I can...
This Woman in Tech says: Thank you
I’ve been reading the various recent articles about women in tech bubbling around the interwebs with mixed feelings. I’ve seen a lot of these debates go by, and although I have strong opinions (I know, you’re surprised, right?), I usually choose not to comment here. There is only one thing that I find myself wanting...
Digital Dumpster Diving
Brian Krebs wrote a fascinating post recently on keylogger results that are being posted in various cloud locations. As Brian put it, insult is added to injury — not only has your machine been compromised, but the results are hanging out on the internet to be scavenged by random opportunists who know what to look...
Privacy Grin of the Day
Gotta love Gizmodo, this thread on possible shenanigans with the iPhone 4 ordering process netted this gem from a commenter:
Patience only goes so far
Mike Waddingham writes about how Facebook has run afoul of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada and will likely end up in court. He notes: I’ve never had a Facebook account. I can be patient. But those that still trust Facebook with personal information — and haven’t bothered to examine the minutia of...
Identity Theft or Bank Robbery?
Joe Baguley from Quest put me onto this HYSTERICAL clip from a UK comedy radio duo on Identity Theft. It highlights the culpability question brilliantly:
Update: This one’s fantastic too, the “Identity Killer”: http://www.youtube.c...
CardSpace *OR* ADFS 2.0
Microsoft announced last Tuesday that CardSpace 2.0 beta would not be releasing at the same time as ADFS 2.0. That fact may not have immediate significance to you, but it certainly does to me. Microsoft, you’ve blown it. On one hand, I’m immensely relieved. A premature release of CardSpace 2.0 would have removed personal card...
Burton Group: is this thing on?
Is it just me, or has the Burton Group gone dark? Outside of twitter, I haven’t heard anything from anybody on anything. Are they publishing somewhere else now and just haven’t bothered to update their old blogs to help existing followers to make the move? Or maybe now that they are part of Gartner, we...
