Johannes Ernst on October 8th, 2009

There is: e-mail (Mail.app) VoIP (Skype) RSS (NetNewsWire, and Mail.app) Twitter (Tweetie) sometimes IM (iChat, others) sometimes IRC (Colloquy) That’s in addition to websites that also act as messaging clients, like Facebook, I’m sorry, how many feeds am I supposed to monitor in how many pieces of software? What about somebody develop a real nice [...]

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Johannes Ernst on October 6th, 2009

I’m beginning to have second thoughts. Plenty of people (myself included) got involved in internet identity because of its promise to put all of us as  individuals at the center of our interactions on-line. To empower individuals to define and offer and enforce their own terms in their interactions with others. To not merely be [...]

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Johannes Ernst on October 5th, 2009

ComputerWeekly reports somewhat breathlessly: Multiple passwords to access computer networks and services may soon be a thing of the past. ITU-T X.1250 provides the ability to enhance data exchange and trust in the identities used worldwide by users, network access devices and service providers using a certificate-based public key infrastructure (PKI) system. This is similar [...]

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