Change of status
I will keep my hand in the identity and social computing space to the extent that people find my input useful.
User Driven Democracy
Great talk given by my buddy Doc Searls.
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Keys to the Kingdom
Drummond Reed was so generous to respond to my recent post about how to recognize an Identity Implementation Fail. The following paragraph in Drummond’s post set me to thinking: Even Microsoft with their design for Information Cards (which are the closest we’ve ever come to full asymmetric key-based security infrastructure) never fully solved that problem....
How to Spot an Unnecessary Identity Fail
I’ve been watching the recent announcements about how hackers—some speculate foreign countries—have cracked the security infrastructure of a system and have stolen the names and passwords of thousands—sometimes millions—of customers. The details of all these disasters are not what I want to talk about. Just this simple and seemingly obvious point. Any system that stores...
What do they want us to do?
[Dave Birch] Politicians don't know what to do about the Internet, and there's no possibility of explaining it to them. Time for professional responsibility to set the requirements.
An idea for the Independent Commission on Banking
[Dave Birch] Here are a couple of ideas in response to the Independent Commission on Banking's report in the UK.
Google Indoors featured on German TV
Check it out! The navigation features within peoples' houses are amazing!
Lazy headmasters versus the Laws of Identity
“Having to get permission from every single parent will be a huge bureaucratic burden and very difficult to achieve."
Six new authentication methods for Identityblog
I want to get my hands dirty and understand all the implications of the NASCAR-style approach. It's already been a riot looking into this and working through the implications.
NCSS Demo at Cloud Connect
Both of my regular readers have pointed out to me that my abysmally low blog posting frequency has recently sagged. That has been somewhat due to the state of my current project, Novell Cloud Security Services (NCSS). NCSS was released last August, and since then we have been working with current and prospective customers to...
The Death Of User-Centric Identity — for now
Around 2005/2006, there were about four major lines of thought on user-centric identity with a few variations. We can quibble about the exact numbers and times, but in broad strokes — which is what this post is all about — that seems about ...
VMWare, Identity and User-Centricity in the Enterprise