Mark Wahl of Informed Control writes me saying: I also see identity management for the benefit of semi-autonomous or autonomous computing elements, beyond merely security… a lot of people tend to think of ‘individuals’ as merely individual humans. Certainly many applications will be operating for the direct benefit of their human owners, but they may [...]
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Is Digital Identity only important to a small minority (such as these folks) who have drunk the Cool Aid, or is the Digital Identity cause inevitably going to take over the world at some time? I will try to summarize in this post why I think Digital Identity matters. It turns out there are many, [...]
Hmm, so that’s what I am… an interesting combination ;-) Here’s today’s quote: The very skeptical and well-informed Johannes Ernst (of LID), whose opinion means a lot to me, thinks it makes sense, but when he says "InfoCard will be anchored pretty deeply inside the Windows OS in a secure process space," I worry how [...]
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Nobody cares what your credit card signature looks like
You simply must read this if you like pranks … in this case, with a serious security background. (via BoingBoing) This prankster started signing his credit card receipts in all sorts of unusual ways (scribbles, heiroglyphics, grids, etc.). The employees handling the transactions didn’t care one whit. They didn’t even look at the signatures. I [...]
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