In my quest to learn more about the good stuff that other identity projects have come up with (and that often is subject to a NIH syndrome which I’m not a particular fan of), Drummond Reed has again been the target (victim?) of my questions. [The deal is that he answers my questions, but I [...]
He said: . If it doesn’t have a URL, it doesn’t exist. This happened to be in a hallroom conversation at Digital Identity World, in the context of URL-based digital identity. But his insight is much broader. The thought that immediately springs to my mind is Wag The Dog‘s "Of course it’s true; I saw [...]
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Wow! By unanimous vote on its mailing list, the all-new Identity Commons has created the following 15 Working Groups: Collaborative Tools (Eugene Eric Kim) Internet Identity Workshop (Kaliya Hamlin) Identity Gang (Paul Trevithick) Standards Gang (Dick Hardt) I-Tags (Drummond Reed) Identity Schemas (Joaquin Miller) OSIS (Dale Olds) OpenID (David Recordon) SAML (Peter Davis) Identity Rights [...]
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I suspected that one could write a full OPML editor completely without server-side code, using some XSLT and JavaScript trickery. The Hyperscope project has now done exactly that. It’s very cool. Try it out here. They have applied it to something rather interesting in itself: a modern version of Doug Engelbart’s famous Augment system, which [...]
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Really Scary Web Hacking Demo
If you are a techie, I highly recommend you look at the presentation "JavaScript malware just got a lot more dangerous" by Jeremiah Grossman and T.C. Niedzialkowski from WhiteHat Security, Inc. An MP4 recording of the demo is here. Wow, is this scary! They are demonstrating how to completely hijack a user’s browser session without [...]
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