Archive for the ‘identity’ Category
Tim Bray has a post up about numbers, and this began as a comment but grew a little too long. I once described telephone numbers as ‘the original digital identity‘. The trouble is that for way too long they were associated to land lines (and hence geographic locations) and then mobiles came along and tied […]
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Tags: ata, identity, numbers, persona, ribbit, sip, skype, telephone, voip
The MAC hullabaloo
Kim Cameron has had lots of interesting things to say over the past few days about the security and privacy implications of harvesting MAC addresses in the wake of Google being somewhat caught out with their activities in this area. Today though he has a piece where I think he’s crossed over the Chicken Little line. In […]
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Tags: cardspace, information card, Kim Cameron, MAC, MACs, privacy, security, streetview, wifi
A little while ago I put out a plea for stronger authentication for Google Apps, and it seems that my wish has been granted with Tricipher launching their myOneLogin for Google Apps[1]. I had tried myOneLogin before, and frankly wasn’t too impressed. This time things are different though, the issues I’d seen before with Chrome compatibility and […]
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Tags: authentication, google, identity, saas, security, strong authentication, tricipher, verisign, vip
Telepersona
This is one of those posts that I’ve been meaning to write for ages, and just not got around to it. I’d like to pull together some of the concepts that I’ve touched upon before such as persona, and the fact that telephone numbers are a primitive form of digital identity. Much of what I […]
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Tags: google talk, google voice, identity, mobile, persona, sip, skype, telco
Two wishes granted – an API for XACML, and OpenID from Google Apps. Wish three – strong(er) authentication for Google Apps to make SaaS more secure.
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Tags: directories, google, identity, idm, ldap, ldif, OpenID, saas, security, strong auth, strong authentication, twittergate, xacml
Google – getting it right :)
I was expecting some nasty identity collisions if I tried to use my personal Gmail and company Gmail in the same browser (in my case Chrome, which I like a lot). In fact I’m sure that bad things used to happen, as I’ve tried this before. But… I’m happy to report that there are in fact no issues whatsoever.
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Google – trying to be too clever
I don’t want my Google Reader in Hebrew or French just because I happen to be in Tel Aviv or Paris. When I sign in it’s me alright! I still speak (and read in) English. Google must know this – I usually use English, I usually browse from England, all of my search queries are in English, the emails that I send are in English, and the blogs I read are written in English. User experience #FAIL.
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Will credentials
The question at hand is what happens to our digital assets when we die, and how do we deal with the identity management issues intertwined with this?
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Why don’t we wiki?
At the end of my technology time line that I posted yesterday I wondered if I should have included more services, particularly in what seems like an innovation vacuum over the last six years. On reflection I think I know why I didn’t include many. Almost everything on the time line was something where I […]
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The end of persona?
I’ve spent a lot of time this year talking about persona, which makes it a little ridiculous that I find myself writing now about its possible demise. We’ve barely got started. The problem is ‘the end on online anonymity‘, where Sarah Perez argues that the Lori Drew case will cause us to lose the freedom […]
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Tags: anonymity, identity, law, persona, privacy
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