May
25

How does identity data relate to transactional and other kinds of data?

Johannes Ernst on May 25th, 2006

Is it non-overlapping? The same, or a subset? Is there overlap; if so, where, and under which circumstances? These questions are at the heart of the thought process that needs to get into designing identity technologies for the era of pervasive identity. For example, if the answer was "non-overlapping", then we could merrily go ahead [...]

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May
25

How will cyber criminals make a buck once we have pervasive digital identity on the internet?

Johannes Ernst on May 25th, 2006

I proposed the following topic: Let’s role play as aspiring cyber criminals, 10 years from now, when there’s a ubiquitous digital identity layer that is part of all digital interactions over the internet. How do we make a buck or a billion? for dinner conversation at the upcoming Harvard/Berkman conference on digital identity. Apparently they [...]

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May
25

The Challenges of Open Data — example: Digital Identity

Johannes Ernst on May 25th, 2006

Last week, I posted about why forcing identity data into name-value pairs is an architectural dead end. Of the many comments that I received, those from Phil Hunt and Mark Wilcox, in particular, turned out to warrant a much more detailed response than I initially thought. I realized that they are raising a much broader [...]

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May
22

Guardian quotes Wendy Hall: URLs instead of National Insurance Number

Johannes Ernst on May 22nd, 2006

According to Wendy Hall, a longstanding colleague of Berners-Lee.., the babies of the future, for example, will have a web address instead of a National Insurance Number. Hall said: ‘I have a vision that in the future when a baby is born you’ll get some sort of internet ID that is effectively your digital persona, [...]

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May
19

WEF Meeting protected by halted sea traffic, naval aircraft and ships

Johannes Ernst on May 19th, 2006

I won’t go this year, but invited I was. Today I’m reading that for the World Economic Forum meeting at Sharm el-Sheikh, which will open on Saturday, …the Egyptians have deployed naval aircraft and ships from the Suez Canal to guard the Red Sea resort… Egyptian security has closed jetties and moved divers’ boats out [...]

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